METHOD FOR BURIAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: radioactive material deactivation and burial technology. SUBSTANCE: method includes radioactive waste placing in underground chamber made in certain rock definitions without water flowing. Underground chamber is made like central volume with ring-radial spread of boxes and recesses for burial substance packages keeping within limits of zone of shock-wave melting result of explosive charge unit action. Free space of boxes is filled up by glass making granular admixtures and each box is connecting to burial chamber by radial channel. Disposals of waste are placed in bearing stress zone out of column borders of fall. Assembly of thermonuclear explosive charges is set into central volume such manner that its geometrical center will be out of safety limit from massif light surface and nearest tectonic fracture. Explosive charge unit power magnitude and underground chamber hollowness total volume are determined by estimation of safety averaged concentration of energy produced by explosure. EFFECT: more effective processing of radioactive waste burial. 8 dwg