The State of the Science and Technology in Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste

Mallants, Dirk; Travis, Karl; Chapman, Neil; Brady, Patrick V.; Griffiths, Hefin

doi:10.3390/en13040833

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The State of the Science and Technology in Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste

by

Dirk Mallants

^1,*,

Karl Travis

²,

Neil Chapman

³,

Patrick V. Brady

⁴ and

Hefin Griffiths

⁵

¹

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Land and Water, Waite Road–Gate 4, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia

²

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sheffield University, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK

³

Chapman & Co. Consulting, Remigen, Switzerland and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sheffield University, Sheffield S1 3JD ,UK

⁴

Advanced Nuclear Energy Programs, SANDIA National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87123, USA

⁵

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, New Illawarra Rd, Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Energies 2020, 13(4), 833; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040833

Submission received: 3 February 2020 / Revised: 3 February 2020 / Accepted: 11 February 2020 / Published: 14 February 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste)

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Abstract

This Special Issue of the Energies Journal on Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste has delivered a timely update on the science and technology of borehole disposal and the types of radioactive wastes it could potentially accommodate. The Special Issue papers discuss (i) circumstances under which a national waste management programme might wish to consider deep borehole disposal; (ii) a status report of deep borehole disposal options in Germany; (iii) the analysis of corrosion performance of engineered barrier systems; (iv) a review of the potential cementing systems suitable for deep borehole disposal; (v) the thermal evolution around heat-generating waste for a wide range of material properties and disposal configurations; (vi) a geochemical analysis of deep brines focussed on fluid-rock interactions; (vii) post-closure performance assessment calculations for deep borehole disposal of Cs/Sr capsules and an example safety case for (viii) horizontal and (ix) vertical deep borehole disposal of nuclear wastes.

Keywords: deep boreholes; nuclear waste disposal; state of the science and technology

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Mallants, D.; Travis, K.; Chapman, N.; Brady, P.V.; Griffiths, H. The State of the Science and Technology in Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste. Energies 2020, 13, 833. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040833

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Mallants D, Travis K, Chapman N, Brady PV, Griffiths H. The State of the Science and Technology in Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste. Energies. 2020; 13(4):833. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040833

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Mallants, Dirk, Karl Travis, Neil Chapman, Patrick V. Brady, and Hefin Griffiths. 2020. "The State of the Science and Technology in Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste" Energies 13, no. 4: 833. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040833

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Mallants, D., Travis, K., Chapman, N., Brady, P. V., & Griffiths, H. (2020). The State of the Science and Technology in Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Waste. Energies, 13(4), 833. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13040833

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