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Status Report on Laboratory Testing and International Collaborations in Salt

Kuhlman, Kristopher L.; Matteo, Edward N.; Hadgu, Teklu H.; Reedlunn, Benjamin R.; Sobolik, Steven R.; Mills, Melissa M.; Kirkes, Leslie D.; Xiong, Yongliang X.; Icenhower, Jonathan I.

This report is a summary of the international collaboration and laboratory work funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy Spent Fuel and Waste Science & Technology (SFWST) as part of the Sandia National Laboratories Salt R&D work package. This report satisfies milestone levelfour milestone M4SF-17SN010303014. Several stand-alone sections make up this summary report, each completed by the participants. The first two sections discuss international collaborations on geomechanical benchmarking exercises (WEIMOS) and bedded salt investigations (KOSINA), while the last three sections discuss laboratory work conducted on brucite solubility in brine, dissolution of borosilicate glass into brine, and partitioning of fission products into salt phases.

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International Collaboration Activities on Engineered Barrier Systems

Jove Colon, Carlos F.; Heath, Jason; Matteo, Edward N.

The Spent Fuel Waste Science and Technology (SFWST) campaign from the DOE Fuel Cycle and Technology (FCT) program has been engaging in international collaborations between repository R&D programs for nuclear waste disposal to leverage on the extensive research investigations and laboratory/field data of engineered barrier system (EBS) components (e.g., near-field) and characterization of transport phenomena in the host rock (e.g., far-field) processes from state-of-the-art underground research laboratories (URL) experiments. Thermal heating from radionuclide decay in the waste canisters will generate increases in temperature that will drive chemical and transport processes in the near- and far-field domains of the repository. URL sites provide the ideal setting to conduct heater test experiments to simulate the thermal effects of heat-generating nuclear waste in disposal galleries and surrounding host rock.

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Thermal Analysis of Disposal of High-Level Nuclear Waste in a Generic Bedded Salt repository using the Semi-Analytical Method

Hadgu, Teklu H.; Matteo, Edward N.

An example case is presented for testing analytical thermal models. The example case represents thermal analysis of a generic repository in bedded salt at 500 m depth. The analysis is part of the study reported in Matteo et al. (2016). Ambient average ground surface temperature of 15°C, and a natural geothermal gradient of 25°C/km, were assumed to calculate temperature at the near field. For generic salt repository concept crushed salt backfill is assumed. For the semi-analytical analysis crushed salt thermal conductivity of 0.57 W/m-K was used. With time the crushed salt is expected to consolidate into intact salt. In this study a backfill thermal conductivity of 3.2 W/m-K (same as intact) is used for sensitivity analysis. Decay heat data for SRS glass is given in Table 1. The rest of the parameter values are shown below. Results of peak temperatures at the waste package surface are given in Table 2.

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