REVIEW OF APPLICABLE TECHNOLOGY -SOLUTION MINING OF CAVERNS IN SALT DOMES TO SERVE AS REPOSITORIES FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTES

摘要

Solution mined, subsurface caverns in salt domes have been used to store hydrocarbon products for the past 20 years. Today, advances in solution min¬ing technology are enabling industry and government to construct these sub¬terranean storage vessels for a host of new applications—among them the storage of radioactive wastes.nSome of the problems which once confronted engineers interested in constructing waste repositories in salt domes have been eliminated;others still remain.