Title: Radioactive waste disposal and geology /
Authors: Krauskopf, Konrad B. 1910-2003
Publisher: Chapman and Hall,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal.; Engineering geology.
Contents: HIGH-LEVEL WASTE: THE PROBLEM: Generation of high-level waste -- Storage, disposal, containment, and isolation -- Is immediate disposal necessary? -- Amounts and composition of high-level waste -- STRATEGIES FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM: Alternatives for disposal -- Requirements for mined geologic disposal -- Engineered barriers -- Geologic barriers -- Retrievability -- MODELS OF RADIONUCLIDE RELEASE: Models and scenarios -- Solubility -- Sorption -- Alternative models -- CRITIQUE OF DISPOSAL MODELS: Questions from a skeptic -- Uncertainty in solubilities and retardation factors -- Initial oxidizing conditions -- Effects of heat -- Effects of radiation -- Geologic and meteorologic events -- Human error and equipment failure -- Human intrusion -- THE GEOLOGY OF REPOSITORY SITES: General requirements -- Crystalline rock in Sweden -- Bedded salt in Texas -- Tuff in southern Nevada -- NATURAL ANALOGS: Uses of analogs -- Analogs for canister materials -- Analogs for bentonite in backfill -- Analogs for the waste form -- Analogs for radionuclide movement -- Oklo -- THE SUBSEA-BED OPTION: The ocean as a dumping-ground -- Finding a disposal site in the ocean -- Techniques of subsea-bed disposal -- Problems of subsea-bed disposal -- High-level waste: general summary -- WASTE THAT IS NOT HIGH-LEVEL: Low-level waste: problems of definition -- Low-level waste: problems of disposal -- TRU waste -- Uranium mill tailings -- Low-level waste: summary -- INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF WASTE DISPOSAL: The politics of repository siting -- National institutional arrangements -- International organizations -- SOME QUESTIONS OF POLICY: Surface storage versus underground disposal -- To reprocess or not to reprocess? -- Waste isolation: how effective and for how long? -- Disposal in the near future versus delay -- Is more research needed?