Sentence examples for repository concepts from inspiring English sources

Different repository designs are generally required to contain the individual waste types, although some repository concepts exist to house wastes with different levels of radioactivity.

Many different combinations of engineered and geological barriers have been proposed to provide safe repository concepts for particular combinations of waste type(s) and geographical/geological setting.

Proposed repository concepts also include engineered barriers such as copper canisters, the corrosion of which increases considerably in an oxidising environment compared to prevailing reducing conditions.

In underground repository concepts for radioactive waste, bentonite is studied as a reference swelling material to be used as an engineered barrier.

Simple models of the constraints on such growth can be used to scope the potential for activity to influence repository performance, particularly in relation to changing storage times, and to compare the CES design with conventional repository concepts.

The function of the host rock is of importance and the paper examines the role of two repository concepts with long subhorizontal or deep vertical holes for placing the waste.

In the high level nuclear waste repository concept, spent nuclear fuel is designed to be encapsulated in steel canisters.

Depending on the repository concept, buffer materials around the canister may play an important role for the performance of deep geological repositories for high-level radioactive waste (HLW).

According to the repository concept in France, the multi-barriers system, composed of geological and engineered barriers, is adopted for the construction of underground repository.

The preliminary repository concept is a shaft-tunnel model, located in saturated zones in granite, while the final waste form for disposal is vitrified high-level radioactive waste.

The decision to use a volunteer siting process requires maximum flexibility of the repository concept to allow it to be adapted to potential sites and hence a wide range of variants of the basic H12 repository design has been developed.