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United States Crystalline Repository Project - Key Research Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Edward S. Patera
Edward S. Patera*
Affiliation:
United States Department of Energy, Crystalline Repository Project Office, 9800 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439
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Abstract

The Crystalline Repository Project is responsible for siting the second high-level nuclear waste repository in crystalline rock for the United States Department of Energy. A methodology is being developed to define data and information needs and a way to evaluate that information. The areas of research the Crystalline Repository Project is involved in include fluid flow in a fractured network, coupled thermal, chemical and flow processes and cooperation in other nations and OECD research programs.

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Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 50: Symposium STOCKHOLM – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management IX , 1985 , 17
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1985

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