- Author
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Chung, R. M.
- Title
- Nuclear Waste Management Program. Summary Report. Workshop on Research and Development Needs in Backfill for Long Term Storage of Nuclear Waste in Deep Geologic Repositories. Held at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC, April 13-14, 1981.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBS SP 668
December 1983
228 p.
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- Keywords
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geology
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permeability
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shear strength
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swelling
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thermal conductivity
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storage
- Identifiers
- backfill; compressibility; nuclear waste; hydraulic conductivity; sorption
- Abstract
- An international workshop on the backfill component of a multi-barrier underground isolation system for nuclear waste disposal/storage was conducted on April 13 and 14, 1981, at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC. This report includes the papers presented and/or submitted to the workshop for publication. It also contains the surveyed results of a questionnaire distributed to the participants at the workshop. The workshop held a one-day informal in-dpeth discussion on the subject and a summary of these discussions is included in this report, which states areas where further research and development needs are required to better understand the fundamental mechanisms of the backfill in the waste repository.