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NWTS Waste Package Design and Materials Testing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

J. F. Kircher and
D. J. Bradley
J. F. Kircher
Affiliation:
Battelle Memorial Institute, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, 505 King Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201
D. J. Bradley
Affiliation:
Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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It is generally accepted that waste to be disposed of in a deep geologic repository will be suitably packaged. The design of such packages depends on the criteria which they must meet and the geochemical environment in which they are to be placed. Both the criteria and the environment must be considered in determining the components required to make up the package, the functions those components are to perform, and the materials of which the components are to be made.

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