Nuclear Waste Management

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Nuclear Waste Management

Providing scientific information and analyses, as well as programmatic guidance, to both national and international entities, to facilitate resolving nuclear waste management challenges.

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Sandia started working in the nuclear waste research area in the early 1970’s and published its first report on nuclear waste in 1973. Sandia has since developed long-lasting, diverse collaborative teams of outstanding scientists and engineers, including geoscientists, material scientists, nuclear engineers, mechanical engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians. These integrated teams generated the foundational science and engineering data and analyses for developing their recommendations and solutions to the nation’s challenges in spent nuclear fuel storage, transportation, security, and disposal.

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  • Nuclear Waste Management Video Playlist
    Sandia’s supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton Cycle Full Screen

    Sandia’s supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton Cycle

    Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Energy Safeguards, Security, and Safety

    Sandia’s stress corrosion cracking research and development

    Understanding loads on spent nuclear fuel rods during transportation and storage

    Geologic disposal safety assessment

    Sandia’s nuclear waste knowledge management

    Sandia’s stress corrosion cracking research and development

    Sandia nuclear fuel cycle: host rocks and engineered barriers

    Thermal-hydraulic testing at Sandia

    Sandia’s Spent Nuclear Fuel Assembly Drop Test

    Deep Borehole Disposal Research

    Sandia’s Spent Nuclear Fuel Dual-Purpose Canisters

    Sandia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technologies

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    To contact a member of the Nuclear Energy team at Sandia, please email ne@sandia.gov.