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Retrieval of nuclear waste canisters from a borehole
Borehole disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) uses off-the-shelf directional drilling technology developed and commercialized by the oil and gas sectors. It is a technology that has been gaining traction in recent years in the nuclear industry. Disposal can be done in one or more boreholes (including an array) drilled into suitable sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic host rocks. Waste is encapsulated in specialized corrosion-resistant canisters, which are placed end to end in disposal sections of relatively small-diameter boreholes that have been cased and fluid-filled. After emplacement, the vertical access hole is plugged and backfilled as an engineered barrier.
Hiromi Morimoto, Philip G. Williams
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 256-261
Design, Operation, and Maintenance | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29754
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The National Tritium Labelling Facility (NTLF) is a multipurpose facility engaged in tritium labelling research.1 It offers to the biomedical research community a fully equipped laboratory for the synthesis and analysis of tritium labelled compounds. The design of the tritiation system, its operations and some labelling techniques are presented.
