Analysis of hydraulic tests of the Culebra and Magenta Dolomites and Dewey Lake Redbeds conducted at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site

Beauheim, Richard L.; Ruskauff, Greg

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“…This could imply that the observation wells are well connected to the pumping zone, possibly from the fault at Well ER-20-8. Beauheim (1987) noticed this effect in observation wells in a highly fractured dolomite. Alternatively, leakage in the borehole between zones could explain the data, but that would require all the cement plugs in the well to be bad-a very unlikely possibility because the cement jobs are checked with a nuclear annulus investigation log to confirm the quality of the seal during well construction.…”

Section: Local Hydraulic Responses From Well Er-20-8 Tca Pumpingmentioning

confidence: 84%

Pahute Mesa Well Development and Testing Analyses for Wells ER-20-8 and ER-20-4, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, Revision 0

Marutzky¹

2012

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Section: Local Hydraulic Responses From Well Er-20-8 Tca Pumpingmentioning

confidence: 84%

Pahute Mesa Well Development and Testing Analyses for Wells ER-20-8 and ER-20-4, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, Revision 0

Marutzky¹

2012

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“…Characterization Study of Culebra in 1987. In 1987, Haug et al (1987 of INTERA, Inc. calibrated a twodimensional flow model to the H-3 pumping test (Beauheim, 1987) and the effects from the excavation of the shafts .…”

Section: Supplemental Eis Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A range was established for the volubility limit for all actinide radioisotopes but in the calculations was set at either 10-3 or 10-1 mM (see brine flow from the Castile brine reservoir was estimated using a well bore submodel in SWIFT II and a numerical mesh of the brine reservoir. (Beauheim, 1987) and the effects from the excavation of the shafts .for Sandia. Data from several boreholes that had been drilled and tested since 1980 were included in this model.…”

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Historical background on performance assessment for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Rechard

2000

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

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Protection Agency (EPA) certified that the WIPP dkposal system complied with its regulations. The EPA's decision was primarily based on the results from a performance. assessment conducted in 1996, which is summarized in thk special issue of Reliability Engineerhg and System Safety. This performance assessment was the culmination of four prelirninaryperformance assessments conducted between 1989 and 1992. "This paper provides a historical setting and context for how the performance of the deep geologic repository at the WIPP was analyzed.' Also included is background on political forces .acting on the project.Key Words: performance assessmen~probabilistic risk assessment risk assessment; radioactive waste disposal; Waste Isolation Pilot PlanG history . '1.0 IntroductionIn 1998,25 years 'after selection of the "Delaware Basin in southeastern New Mexico as a~otential disposal site for radioactive waste, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) certified that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), an underground geologic disposal system, complied with its regulations. This paper presents a historical summary of the system characterization, engineering analyses, and scientific investigations undertaken by the WIPP Project over the past 25 years and provides a context for the~esults presented in this special issue of Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Although it is mot .essentird to know the WIPP'S history to comprehend the engineering analysis, an understanding of the issues that the project faced can be helpful. Many paths were followed during these 25 years to discern which phenomena were important at the WIPP, and often these paths were initiated in Tesponse to evolving notions of what kind of :g@tific information was "significant, what level of understanding was required, and how society could use this scientific information to decide whether deep geologic disposal of nuclear waste was acceptable.1-3/9/99 Draft \. DISCLAIMERPortions of this document may be illegible in electronic image products. Images are produced from the best available original document... .- Characterization of WIPP Disposal SystemThe choice of New Mexico as a potential disposal site for nuclear waste in 1973 (Claibome and Gera, 1974) was one in a series of episodes in which New Mexico had figured prominently with regard to nuclear phenomena. In 1942, the Manhattan Engineering Dkrnct selected New Mexico as the location (including what are known now asLos Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories) for assembling the scientists, engineers, and technicians who would develop the fist atomic bomb. As a direct consequence of that development, the first atomic explosion took place in 1945 in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico (Serber, 1992). Sixteen years later, in 1961, scientists with the Gnome Project detonated a device in the Delaware Basin in bedded salt near Carlsbad, New Mexico, as part of the Plowshare Program, which was exploring nonmilitary uses of nuclear explosives (Gard, 1968).After a potential...

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“…The H-19 wells are cased with fiberglass to near the top of the Culebra, and then open holes through the Culebra (Figure 4), which was the interval of interest and is known to be fractured at this location (Beauheim and Ruskauff, 1998). H-9b is similarly completed through fractured Culebra, except that it contains steel casing rather than fiberglass.…”

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“…Flow in the Culebra at H-19 is also thought to be concentrated primarily in fractures (Beauheim and Ruskauff, 1998). Flow directions and velocities could be determined for only 31 of the 156 stations logged in the wells on the H-19 hydropad, which may represent the frequency with which we positioned the colloidal borescope adjacent to a flowing fracture.…”

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Evaluation of the Colloidal Borescope as a Monitoring Tool at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site

Beauheim¹

2000

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Analysis of hydraulic tests of the Culebra and Magenta Dolomites and Dewey Lake Redbeds conducted at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Pahute Mesa Well Development and Testing Analyses for Wells ER-20-8 and ER-20-4, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, Revision 0

Pahute Mesa Well Development and Testing Analyses for Wells ER-20-8 and ER-20-4, Nevada National Security Site, Nye County, Nevada, Revision 0

Historical background on performance assessment for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Evaluation of the Colloidal Borescope as a Monitoring Tool at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site

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