NOTICE TO READERS At the request of the Salt Repository Project Office, Argonne National Laboratory carried out a review of a report entitled "Schematic Designs for the Penetration Seals for a Repository in the Permian Basin."* Argonne was asked to consider the assumptions, the interpretation of data, the adequacy of materials, the future activities, the behavior of crushed salt and the sealing design in general. It was our hope that the review panel might identify any deficiencies in material properties or in the designs that may been present. The review report prepared by the Argonne panel has been given to OMWI for their consideration and for transmittal to D'Appolonia.
DISCLAIMER This report presents a method for determining the relative favorability of geologically defined units for high-level radioactive waste isolation. The method was applied to crystalline rock areas and subareas in the northeastern United States for illustrative purposes only. No conclusions should be drawn as to the absolute suitability of any of the subareas for development of a repository for such wastes. Extant geologic information was simply used to demonstrate how seismotectonic screening and multiattribute decision analysis can help identify the areas and subareas within a particular region having the most favorable attributes for repository development relative to other areas and subareas in that region. Final determinations of relative favorability would require consideration of nongeologic information as well as more detailed geologic data.
Documents are being submitted to the Salt Repository Project Office (SRPO) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Memorial Institute's Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, by the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology (TBEG), and by other contractors to satisfy milestones of the Salt Repository Project of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program. Some of these documents are being reviewed by multiclisciplinary groups of peers to ensure DOE of their adequacy and credibility. Adequacy of documents refers to their ability to meet specified legal or regulatory requirements. Credibility of documents refers to the validity of the assumptions, methods, and conclusions, as well as to the completeness of coverage. Since late 1982, Argonne National Laboratory has been under contract to DOE to conduct multidisciplinary peer reviews of program plans and reports covering research and development activities related to siting and constricting a mined repository in salt for high-level radioactive waste. The present report summarizes Argonne's review of TBEG's report entitled Petrographies, Stratigraphic,
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