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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
Isao Murata, Shigeo Yoshida, Noriyuki Saito, Akito Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 997-1001
Neutronics Experiments and Analysis (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963743
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Secondary gamma-ray skyshine has been measured at an intense 14 MeV neutron source facility with a Hp-Ge detector used to investigate this mechanism. Many discrete gamma-rays due to (n, γ) reactions were observed in the spectrum. It was confirmed that in the evaluation of the secondary gamma-ray skyshine, a precise spectrum calculation down to thermal neutron is indispensable. On the other hand, there exists only a continuum spectrum up to 8 MeV with no discrete peaks in the real skyshine spectrum from the upper air. It was found that the continuum spectrum is composed of mainly Compton scattered gamma-rays. In the distance dependency measurement, the real skyshine contribution showed slow attenuation compared with the whole skyshine contribution. This means that with increasing distance from the facility the real skyshine contribution is gradually dominant, namely, it becomes more important in the skyshine evaluation.