The Argentine radioactive waste repository: basic criterio preliminary siting and desing conceptual basic

Abstract

The paper presents the studies carried out fot a future repository for high-level radioactive wastes iriginating in the nuclear programme of Argentine. These studies started in November 1981. A summary of the basic criterio governing the study as well as a descption of the activities involved in the selection of yhe sites, its validation and the derivation of the desing bases of yhe future repository is presented, together with conceptual difinitions of its engineering.