Review of the Criteria for the Site Suitability, Design, Construction, and Operation of the Proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)

摘要

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a mined repository in bedded salt, located in Eddy County in New Mexico, for the disposal of transuranic radioactive wastes. Plans also call for experimental facilities for studying the interactions of high-level wastes with the host rocks, and, unofficially, for disposal of a limited number of commercial spent fuel elements. The report examines the WIPP program activities in progress up to the end of 1979. The site selection criteria, design of the underground facilities, acceptance criteria for transuranic waste, environmental effects, in situ experiments, and natural resources at the site are addressed.