ML19305A461
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| Issue date: | 04/11/1979 |
| From: | Boyle R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Malaro J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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MINUTES OF NRC/00E MEETING ON GEOLOGIC EXPLORATION FOR HLW REPOSITORY SITES On April 11, 1979, the second ~in a series of meetings was held in.
Silver Spring with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and their contractors. The purpose of this meeting was to provide the NRC staff and our contractors with a better understanding of the geo-l logical exploration program being implemented by DOE to identify sites for nuclear waste repositories. NRC staff members from NMSS, SD, NRP.,
and RES attended. A copy of the meeting notice was placed in the NRC 4
public document room at 1717 H Street and was sent to those individuals who had requested that they be notified of NRC/ DOE meetings on waste management matters. The total attendance at the meeting was about 100 persons including several individuals from the public, other Government agencies, and congressional staffs.
DOE briefly described their program for selecting a repository site.
4' Attached is a set of all vu-graphs which were used by DOE or the contractors during the meeting. The sequence of geologic investigations in this process is to (1) identify ceologic formations of interest, (2) perform regional reconnaissance studies on favorable geologic formgtions, (3) perform more detailed studies on smaller areas (c-,1000 mi ) within a favor-able geologic formation, and (4) prepare detailed site specific confirmation studies on areas of no more than a few square miles.
The geologic exploration work in both salt and non-salt media by DOE is taking place in seven areas in the United States. These include the Gulf Interior Region (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi)s the Paradox Basin (Colorado, Utah), the Permian Basin (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico), the Salina Basin (Ohio, New York), the WIPP l
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By 1984, work should have progressed in these areas to the point where DOE will be able to determine the feasibility of developing a repository at specific sites within these regions, Hanford, and the Nevada Test Site.
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- 50 MISSISSIPPI DOMES INVESTIGATED (LITERATURE SEARCH) AND MAPS PREPARED 1977 e
- RAYBURN'S DOME, LOUISlANA DRILLED TO 5,013 FEET
- TOTAL OF 5,064 FEET OF CORE RECOVERED, LOUISlANA e TOTAL OF 304 FEET OF CAPROCK CORED, LOUISIANA e ONWI GEOLOGIC EXPLORATION DEPARTMENT FORMED e TECTONIC STABILITY RESEARCH BEGUN AT LOUISIANA DOMES e MINED-OPENINGS RESEARCH BEGUN, LOUISIANA e MINERAL RESOURCES MAPS PREPARED FOR 2 LOUISIANA DOMES e GRAVITY GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH BEGUN OVER 3 LOUISIANA DOMES O
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REPORT -STUDY AREAS RECOMMENDED DRILLING PROGRAMS PLANNED: 3 STATES e
LAND ACCESS ACTIVITIES BEGUN IN 3 STATES: C of E e
ON BOARD IN LOUISIANA REMOTE THERMAL-lR SENSOR FLOWN OVER 8 DOMES e
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI UNDER CONTRACT e
COMPLETED TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING, VACHERIE DOME, e
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Geologic Exploration: Salt-Domes (Continued) 1979 e
20-COUNTY REGIONAL GROUNDWATER MAP PRE-PARED: EAST TEXAS i
GRAVITY MODEL COMPLETED AT KEECHI AND OAK-e WOOD DOMES, EAST TEXAS, AND PARTIALLY COM-PLETED AT CYPRESS CREEK AND LAMPTON DOMES, i
MISSISSIPPI 11 GEOLOGIC CROSS-SECTIONS COMPLETED ACROSS e
EAST TEXAS BASIN i
e 2,646 WE LLS PLOTTED ON 1:250,000 SCALE MAP FOR EAST TEXAS REGIONAL STUDIES GROUNDWATER MODEL CONSTRUCTED FOR OAKWOOD e
DOME VICINITY 8 TILTMETERS INSTALLED AND OPERATING AT VACHERIE e
DOME, LOUISIANA ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY WORK STARTED AT VACHERIE e
DOME DRILLING IN PROGRESS AT CYPRESS CREEK DOME, e
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FUTURE PLANS Gulf Coast Salt-Domes l
1979 MISSISSIPPI e DRILL CORE-HOLES AT 3 DOMES DRILL NEAR-DOME GEOLOGIC TEST HOLES e
DRILL SHALLOW TEST-HOLES OVER 3 DOMES e
e BEGIN DOME-STABILITY RESEARCH BEGIN AREA CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES e
EAST TEXAS e DRILL CORE-HOLES AT 2 DOMES DRILL NEAR-DOME GEOLOGIC TEST HOLES e
DRILL SHALLOW TEST-HOLES OVER 3 DOMES e
LOUISIANA INSTALL MICROSEISMIC RECORDING EQUIPMENT e
DRILL NEAR-DOME GEOLOGIC TEST HOLES e
e COMPLETE PETROGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF VACHERIE DOME CORE O_.~_W._.I 4 79 Sallelle
HYDROLOGIC EXPLORATION FUTURE PLANS Gulf Coast Salt-Domes 1979 MISSISSIPPI e DRILL REGIONAL HYDROLOGIC BOREHOLES e RUN PUMPING TESTS e COLLECT WATER SAMPLES EAST TEXAS e DRILL REGIONAL HYDROLOGIC BOREHOLES e RUN PUMPING TESTS
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- CONDUCT HIGH-RESOLUTION SEISMIC REFLECTION SURVEY -SIX 2-MILE LINES: 3 DOMES e RUN GEOPHYSICAL SUITE OF LOGS IN DRILL-HOLES e COMPLETE GRAVITY SURVEYS OVER 3 DOMES E AST TEXAS e CONDUCT HIGH-RESOLUTION SEISMIC REFLECTION SURVEY - FOUR 2-MILE LINES: 2 DOMES i
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STATUS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS-PARADOX BASIN e GEOLOGIC APPRAISAL PARADOX BASIN SALT e 3-HOLE DRILLING / TESTING PROGRAM SALT VALLEY. UTAH e VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING EXPERIMENT SALT VALLEY, UTAH e SALT VALLEY COMPLETION REPORT e GEOLOGIC EXPLORATION WORK PLAN e REGIONAL GEOLOGY e REGIONAL HYDROLOGY e ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES e REGION-TO-AREA SCREENING e FUTURE WORK O W/ <m \\
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