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Interim reclamation report: Basalt Waste Isolation Project exploration shaft site
[report]
1990
unpublished
In 1968, a program was srarted to assess the feasibility ci storing Hanford Site defense waste in deep caverns constructed in basa.l.t. This program was expanded in 1976 to include investigations of the Hanford Site as a potential location for a mined commercial nuclear waste repository. Extensive studies of the geotechnical aspects of the site were undertaken, including preparations for drilling a large diameter (2.8 m) Exploratory Shaft to a depth of 1158 m. On December 22, 1987, President
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