Coe, Gabriela R.2014-03-142014-03-141995-05-15etd-10242009-020147http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45292An economic evaluation of nuclear waste underground storage facility is presented. The underground storage facility is a subsystem of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System (CRWMS) currently under development in the United States. The evaluation considers two nuclear waste emplacement concepts for the underground facility: Vertical Borehole Emplacement and In-Drift Emplacement. Since the two concepts are of unequal lives, several cases were established in order to perform an economic comparison. A discussion of the underground facility life-cycle is provided. A detailed description of the assumptions and methodology used for cost estimating, and an analysis of the results is also provided. A complete set of calculations for each case is given in the appendix.vi, 154 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn Copyrightnuclear waste emplacement conceptsLD5655.V851 1995.C64Master's projecthttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10242009-020147/