Report on the Development of Equipment and Techniques for Drilling and Machining Bedded Salt

摘要

Equipment and techniques are being developed in the evaluation of bedded salt as a storage media for nuclear waste. Beginning with the Conceptual Design Report for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and continuing with field and laboratory experiments indicate the need for a more complete understanding of bedded salt as an engineering material. This report discusses various aspects of bedded salt in its comparison to other materials, machining methods in the laboratory and equipment development to support experiments in mines. (ERA citation 06:015375)