... currently regarded by the scientific and engineering community as viable is deep disposal in stable geologic formations. National and international repository concepts are being developed for this option. A further – and more urgent – challenge is presented by the need to deal with the many tonnes...

... Geotechnics of the Czech Technical University in Prague. INTRODUCTION The research on the problems of high-level nuclear waste disposal in underground repositories was launched in 1955, when the conference on peaceful exploitation of nuclear energy in Geneva became the forum for formulating the principal...

... radioactive waste (HAW) disposal. The Delft laboratory of Mining Technology/Rock Mechanics has installed a measuring system consisting of 50 transmitters and 50 receivers combined with two ten-channel transientrecorders for the long term observation and recording of cataclastic effects in the rock salt around...

... SUMMARY: Waste is an unavoidable consequence of various human activities. Waste disposal problems have been increasing at an alarming proportion worldwide. Due to strict regulatory controls on dumping of wastes on land and at sea, the subsurface burial of wastes is a disposal alternative...

... are determined of the development of rock destruction in time at different relations including the overlimiting relations between strength and indices of the state of stress of rocks in the outline of shafts. A choice of a cross section of a shaft and of the disposal of adjacent workings is of great importance...