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The War Over Kds at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

William W.-L. Lee
William W.-L. Lee*
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116 Marmion Way, #10, South Pasadena, CA 91030USA, wwlee@alum.mit.edu
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This paper traces the history of distribution coefficients used to calculate radionuclide transport in performance assessments for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), to obtain technical lessons for performance assessment in general. The WIPP is a geologic repository for transuranic waste. The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) has filed a compliance certification application1with the Environmental Protection Agency. If the application is approved, the USDOE plans to operate the WIPP starting in November 1997, making the WIPP the first operational repository in the United States.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 506: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXI , 1997 , 1047
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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1 U. S. Department of Energy, 1996. Title 40 CFR 191 Compliance Certification Application, 21 volumes, Carlsbad Area Office.Google Scholar
2 Sandia WIPP Performance Assessment Department, 1992. Preliminary Performance Assessment for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, December 1992, five volumes, SAND92-0700.Google Scholar
3 U. S. Department of Energy, 1995. Draft Title 40 CFR 191 Compliance Certification Application, Carlsbad Area Office.Google Scholar
4 Lee, W. W.-L., and Chaturvedi, L., 1995. “Radionuclide Retardation Mechanisms in the Culebra Aquifer at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,” Proc. of the 5th Intl‘ Conf. on Rad. Waste Mgt & Env. Rem., Berlin, 877.Google Scholar
5 Lee, W. W.-L., 1997. “The WIPP Compliance Certification Application: Over-estimated Radionuclide Retardation Coefficients,” Trans. Am. Nuc. Soc., 76, 45.Google Scholar