Excavation damage and stability studies at the URL - Rock mechanics considerations for nuclear fuel waste disposal in Canada

Vail Rocks 1999 - 37th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 861-868

  Read, R S ^a   Chandler, N A ^b  

^a Bruce Geotechnical Consultants Incorporated   (Canada)

^b ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; NEAR FIELDS; NUCLEAR FUEL WASTES; STABILITY STUDY; UNDERGROUND EXCAVATION; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES; VARIOUS BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 85033568057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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