... to convert a mine into a highly secure information storage and handling facility, based on the experience of the Iron Mountain Group in New York State. It includes data on warehousing, libraries, laboratory space, private vaults, and back-up computer services. It also stresses the need for self-contained...

... of high-level radioactive waste dispo- sal in salt, with early investigations by the oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) directed toward the disposal of liquid waste (Parker, and others, 1960). In 1961, the NAS-NRC COmmittee reviewed the progress of the work since 1955, and concluded that experience both...

... isolation of radioactive waste from the biosphere. In 1975, the U.S. Department of Energy initiated the WIPP program by requesting Sandia Laboratories to develop and implement a scientific and technical investigative program, including extensive geologic and hydrologic exploration to determine...

... Compressed air energy storage in salt caverns induces low-frequency cyclic loading effects in rock salt. An ongoing study is described which will furnish data for assessing associated stability of storage caverns. Some initial findings are presented from laboratory and in-situ mine tests...