ABYSSAL SEQUESTRATION OF NUCLEAR WASTE AND OTHER TYPES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE

摘要

A system and method of disposing nuclear waste and other hazardous waste includes means for, and the steps of, blending a waste stream, which includes either a radioactive waste or a hazardous waste (or both), with a liquid and, optionally, a solid material to produce a dense fluid and pumping the dense fluid into a tubing string of an injection boring. The dense fluid then exits a perforation in a casing of the injection boring and enters a fracture in a rock strata, where it continues to propagate downward until it reaches an immobilization point. The dense fluid may be a slurry formed by a metal and a cross-linked polymer gel or hydrated clay slurry. The metal can be one that has a melting temperature less than the temperature at the bottom of the injection boring. The solid material could also be other nuclear waste or a radionuclide.

主权项

1. A system for abyssal sequestration of nuclear waste and other types of hazardous waste, the system comprising:
a gravity fracture filled with a fluid having at least one waste selected from the group consisting of a radioactive waste and a hazardous waste, the fluid being denser than a rock formation into which the fluid is to be disposed so as to cause the rock formation to gravity fracture, the fluid propagating downward in the gravity fracture as the gravity fracture propagates downward.