NUCLEAR RADIATION PROBLEM
- Components have been developed by USDoE and other groups worldwide
to meet the specifications of containment. - Extraordinary metallurgical properties of the container material are
available to guarantee long term stability. - The Oil & Gas Industry has developed and perfected unique set of tools
and manufacturing processes to provide for downhole equipment. - The Oil & Gas Industry has all the necessary deliver systems to deploy
any type of device under all known or foreseeable operational conditions.
THE CAPSULE DEVELOPMENT
- Solutions based on immobilization of nuclear waste material.
- Available solutions based on 50 years of worldwide research on waste
formulations already exist. - Capsule fabrication is relatively easy.
- Allow for high waste concentration in formulation.
- Optimal Processes include: CERAMIC FORMATION & VITRIFICATION
“SYNROC” – IMMOBILIZE HIGH LEVEL WASTE BEFORE BURIAL
- Synroc is the one of the most effective and durable means of immobilizing
various forms of high-level radioactive wastes for disposal (1978).
(Density 4.5gm/cc. MP = 1350 C) - It is a ceramic made from several natural minerals which together
incorporate into their crystal structures nearly all of the elements present
in high level radioactive waste. - Recent developments are of specialized forms to immobilize plutonium,
and of composite glass-ceramic waste-forms.
CAPSULE DEVELOPMENT PHASE
NUCLEAR ENCAPSULATION MODULE
NUCLEAR ENCAPSULATION MODULE
GENERIC
CAPSULE
INSERTION
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MULTIPLE CAPSULES OF HIGH LEVEL WASTE IN LATERAL WELLBORE
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DETAIL SECTION OF CAPSULE IN ROCK FORMATION
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CAPSULE PLACEMENT
IN
WELLBORES
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HANDLING THE RADIOACTIVE WASTE CANISTERS ON THE SURFACE
CAPSULE BEING INSERTED INTO WELLBORES
ENGINEERED AND NATURAL BARRIERS
