UNFAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR NUCLEAR CRITICALITY FOLLOWING DISPOSAL OF TRANSURANIC WASTE AT THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT

摘要

Modeling of nuclear criticality was omitted from performance assessment calculations for the Waste Iso- lation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a repository for waste con- taminated with transuranic radioisotopes, located in southeastern New Mexico, based on arguments of low probability and low consequence. Low-probability argu- ments are presented here.