T131 Geoscience and Engineering Research Applied to Mined Geologic Repositories and Deep Borehole Concepts for Disposal of Radioactive Waste

Monday, 26 September 2016
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 406

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  DEEP GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE:  MULTIPLE OPTIONS FOR LONG-TERM ISOLATION
  Peter N. Swift, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and David C. Sassani, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
  286507 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  239PU-238U DISEQUILIBRIUM STUDIES AT THE NOPAL I URANIUM ORE DEPOSIT, PEñA BLANCA, MEXICO
  Joanna S. Denton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Steven J. Goldstein, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Andrew J. Nunn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Kimberly A. Hinrichs, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Ronald S. Amato, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  281091 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  AN OVERVIEW OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL RESEARCH ACTIVITIES LINKED TO INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES
  Jens T. Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
  281427 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  DISPOSAL OF HIGH LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE IN RUSSIA: STUDY OF DURABILITY OF NA-AL-P GLASS AND PRODUCT OF ITS CRYSTALLIZATION IN A HOT WATER
  S.V. Yudintsev, Institute of geology of ore deposits, petrography, mineralogy and geochemistry RAS, Moscow
  276767 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  AUTHIGENIC MINERAL GROWTH AND COPPER CORROSION IN HYDROTHERMAL BENTONITE EXPERIMENTS
  Florie A. Caporuscio, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Sarah Palaich, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and Michael C. Cheshire, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and Carlos Jove-Colon, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
  281143 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  UNDERSTANDING THE THMC EVOLUTION OF BENTONITE BARRIER — MODELING AN IN SITU TEST FOR BENTONITE BACKFILLED ENGINEERED BARRIER SYSTEM
  Liange Zheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA and Hao Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA and Jonny Rutqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA and Jens T. Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
  284162 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  UPDATES ON SALT REPOSITORY EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS
  Philip H. Stauffer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Douglas Weaver, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM and Hakim Boukhalfa, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Shawn Otto, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM and Florie A. Caporuscio, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and George Zyvoloski, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Shaoping Chu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Suzanne Bourret, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Peter Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  285337 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  ACTINIDE SORPTION IN A DOLOMITE ROCK SYSTEM: EVALUATING THE DEGREE OF CONSERVATISM IN KD RANGES USED IN PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT MODELS
  Timothy M. Dittrich, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM and Michael P. Dugas, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM and Donald T. Reed, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM
  286882 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  TECHNICAL CHALLENGES FOR DEEP BOREHOLE DISPOSAL
  Mary Lou Zoback, Stanford University, Stanford, CA and Mary Lou Zoback, Arlington, VA
  281858 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  HORIZONTAL BOREHOLES IN SHALE FOR DEEP ISOLATION OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL
  Richard A. Muller, Deep Isolation Inc., Berkeley, CA and Richard A. Muller, University of California, Berkeley, CA and Elizabeth A. Muller, Deep Isolation Inc., Berkeley, CA and Elizabeth A. Muller, Berkeley Earth, Berkeley, CA
  281564 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  EVALUATING GEOLOGIC SITE GUIDELINES FOR A DEEP BOREHOLE FIELD TEST
  David C. Sassani, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Kristopher L. Kuhlman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Geoff A. Freeze, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Robert MacKinnon, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Ernest Hardin, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Patrick V. Brady, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Frank Perry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  286336 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  USE OF GIS AND GEOLOGIC FRAMEWORK MODELS TO SUPPORT SITE EVALUATION AND SITE CHARACTERIZATION FOR A DEEP BOREHOLE FIELD TEST IN CRYSTALLINE ROCK
  Frank Perry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Richard E. Kelley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  280690 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  SITE CHARACTERIZATION FOR THE DEEP BOREHOLE FIELD TEST
  Kristopher L. Kuhlman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and David C. Sassani, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Geoff A. Freeze, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Ernest Hardin, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Patrick V. Brady, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
  285070 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FIRST YEAR OF THE DEEP BOREHOLE FIELD TEST
  Mark Kelley, Battelle, Columbus, OH
  285771 (Technical Sessions)