Construction of a cylindrical brine test room using a tunnel boring machine

Construction of a cylindrical brine test room using a tunnel boring machine [electronic resource]

This paper discusses the construction of a horizontal cylindrical brine test room at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The room was constructed in the bedded salt formation at a depth of 655 meters with a tunnel boring machine. The machine leasing, technical and operational management, paramet...

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Corporate Author: Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Waste Isolation Division (Researcher)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Defense ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1990.
Subjects:
Program Management.
Us Doe.
Engineering.
Nuclear Facilities.
Functional Models.
Tunneling Machines.
Geologic Deposits.
Equipment.
Wastes.
National Organizations.
Shaft Excavations.
Leasing.
Testing.
Tunnels.
Pilot Plants.
Radioactive Waste Facilities.
Management.
Wipp.
Materials.
Construction.
Us Organizations.
Tunneling.
Salt Deposits.
Creep.
Radioactive Wastes.
Mining Equipment.
Boreholes.
Underground Facilities.
Mechanical Properties.
Alpha-bearing Wastes.
Cavities.
Radioactive Materials.
Mining Engineering.
Management Of Radioactive And Non-radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Facilities.

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