Engineering Development of Hydraulic Fracturing as a Method for Permanent Disposal of Radioactive Wastes.

Flowability of bulk solids used in shale fracturing grouts as determined by the Jenike and Johanson method

“…4) and a line is drawn through those three points that had a vertical load less than the preconsolidation load. The curve defined by the plotted· The maximum hopper angles and minimum hopper-opening diameters for unaerated mass flow were determined for the various dry solids of interest 1 shown in Table 2. Bin-wall adhesion tests were determined tor tour possible wall coatings.…”

Site characterization summary report for Waste Area Grouping 10 Wells at the Old Hydrofracture Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

“…The grout component of the injected grout/waste mix typically consisted of approximately 2.5 parts cement, 2.5 parts fly ash, 1 part attapulgite clay, 0.5 part grundite, and 0.003 part delta gluconolactone retarder (Weeren 1974;de Laguna et al 1968). The grout and waste constituents present an anthropogenic source term of radiological or other ionic constituents that may affect groundwater surrounding the monitoring and observation wells via leaching.…”

“…An initially elevated alpha activity of 9970 pCi/L was detected at the bottom; however, analysis of subsequent samples of the well bottom indicates activities of 1580 and 188 pCi/L. The source of the alpha and beta activities is not known because only 25 Ci of gamma-emitting Cs-137 was injected in the second hydrofracture experiment (de Laguna et al 1968).…”

Remedial investigation report on Waste Area Grouping 5 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Volume 3, Appendix B, Technical findings and conclusions

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