Role of flexible design in staged development of repositories for spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste

13th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference 2011, IHLRWMC 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1011-1016

  Williams, Jeffrey R ^a   Cotton, Thomas A ^b   Rechard, Rob P ^c  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^b Complex Systems Group LLC ^*  (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE DESIGNS; HIGH LEVEL WASTE; MODULAR DESIGNS; REPOSITORY PROGRAMS; REPOSITORY SYSTEMS; SPENT NUCLEAR FUELS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; YUCCA MOUNTAIN REPOSITORY;

DESIGN; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80052005023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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