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| DOI | 10.2172/15169 |
| Title | Near-Field Hydrology Data Package for the Immobilized Low-Activity Waste 2001 Performance Assessment |
| Creator/Author | PD Meyer ; RJ Serne |
| Publication Date | 1999 Dec 21 |
| OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 15169 |
| Report Number(s) | PNNL-13035 |
| DOE Contract Number | AC06-76RL01830 |
| DOI | 10.2172/15169 |
| Other Number(s) | R&D Project: 30200; TRN: US200221%%430 |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
| Resource Relation | Other Information: PBD: 21 Dec 1999 |
| Coverage | Topical |
| Research Org | Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (US) |
| Sponsoring Org | US Department of Energy (US) |
| Subject | 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; FORECASTING; GROUND DISPOSAL; HYDROLOGY; PERFORMANCE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SURFACE WATERS; TANKS; TRANSPORT; WASTES; WATER |
| Description/Abstract | Lockheed Martin Hanford Company (LMHC) is designing and assessing the performance of disposal facilities to receive radioactive wastes that are currently stored in single- and double-shell tanks at the Hanford Site. The preferred method for disposing of the portion that is classified as immobilized low-activity waste (ILAW) is to vitrify the waste and place the product in new-surface, shallow land burial facilities. The LMHC project to assess the performance of these disposal facilities is the Hanford ILAW Performance Assessment (PA) Activity. The goal of this project is to provide a reasonable expectation that the disposal of the waste is protective of the general public, groundwater resources, air resources, surface water resources, and inadvertent intruders. Achieving this goal will require prediction of contaminant migration from the facilities. This migration is expected to occur primarily via the movement of water through the facilities and the consequent transport of dissolved contaminants in the pore water of the vadose zone. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) assists LMHC in its performance assessment activities. One of PNNL's tasks is to provide estimates of the physical, hydraulic, and transport properties of the materials comprising the disposal facilities and the disturbed region around them. These materials are referred to as the near-field materials. Their properties are expressed as parameters of constitutive models used in simulations of subsurface flow and transport. In addition to the best-estimate parameter values, information on uncertainty in the parameter values and estimates of the changes in parameter values over time are required to complete the PA. These parameter estimates and information are contained in this report, the Near-Field Hydrology Data Package. |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Language | English |
| Format | Medium: P; Size: 90 pages |
| Availability | INIS; OSTI as DE00015169 To purchase this media from NTIS, click here |
| System Entry Date | 2008 Feb 04 |
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