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Article name Review for the Mining and Geological Part of the Feasibility Study for the Construction of an Underground Radioactive Waste Storage Facility
Authors Komlev V.N. engineer-physicis,
Bibliographic description Komlev B. N. Review for the Mining and Geological Part of the Feasibility Study for the Construction of an Underground Radioactive Waste Storage Facility // Transbaikal State University Journal. 2024. Vol. 30, no. 3. P. 138–143. DOI: 10.21209/2227-9245-2024-30-3-138-143.
Category There is an opinion...
DOI 167.6+349+930+621.039
DOI 10.21209/2227-9245-2024-30-3-138-143
Article type Review
Annotation The city district “Closed Administrative-territorial formation of the city of Zheleznogorsk” has appointed and organized public discussions on the materials of the justification of the license (including environmental impact assessment materials) for activities in the field of nuclear energy use “Creation of a second-class RW storage facility at FSUE GCK”. The mining and geological materials on the construction site of an underground repository of radioactive waste (RW) of the second hazard class in Zheleznogorsk of the Krasnoyarsk Territory are considered. The purpose of the construction of the storage facility is to ensure the storage of second-class radioactive waste at the site of the mining and chemical plant in volumes that meet the needs of the enterprise until the national operator is ready to handle radioactive waste. The review is a response to an offer to discuss supposedly public materials of open access. The subject of public discussions was conducted in the form of a survey. It is proposed to carry out the initial stage of the justification of the object on the basis of the Law “On Subsoil”. The following conclusion is made: the target horizon after the conservation of the object is likely to be flooded, primarily along vertical collector trunks; heterogeneous backfilling of the internal free space of trunks and horizontal workings with finished concrete lining with crushed/granular natural bentonite will not help; in reality, the volume of water in the burial zone will significantly determine the characteristics and the inexhaustible resource of the overlying water supply layers of rocks, rather than rocks of the target range, and even without recharge from other sources, the flooded PGZRO will quickly turn into a supplier of hot water and radiolytic gases. The opinion is expressed that it is unacceptable to turn a temporary storage facility into a permanent disposal site for radioactive waste.
Key words geology, underground construction, radioactive waste, Zheleznogorsk, waste storage and disposal, hydrogeological data, gneiss fracturing, underground storage of radioactive waste, geochemical survey, tracer studies
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