Russell McMahon wrote:
> Waste isolation pilot plant report
> 93 page pdf
> 1996
> New Mexico
>
>         http://www.wipp.energy.gov/library/CRA/BaselineTool/Documents/Appendices/EPIC.PDF#search=%22%22david%20givens%22%20wipp%22
>
>
> Despite what they say below, at least one of their selected markers 
> would ENCOURAGE my wife to dig there, should she be in the archaeology 
> business.
>
> ABSTRACT:
>
>
> The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency requires the use of passive 
> institutional controls
> (PICs) to discourage hture generations from inadvertently intruding 
> into the Waste Isolation Pilot
> Plant (WPP) waste repository and the contiguous 16 sections. The 
> controls are to include
> markers, records, archives, and 
 >government ownership and land-use restrictions.

Yep, when we lose the war on terror and are overrun with Muslim 
radicals, government land-use restrictions will be as useful as
high-button shoes.
>  Credit may be
> allowed in performance assessments for these controls to reduce the 
> frequency of inadvertent
> intrusion for several hundred years after disposal.
>   
several hundred years. Yep, that covers it all right...
> A task force was formed to estimate the credit for the passive 
> controls for the W Pre pository.
> The estimate was constrained by the use of existing conceptual designs 
> of these controls, the use
> of historical analogues for the endurance of materials and structures, 
> the consideration of possible
> failure modes for each control, and the regulatory assumption of 
> societal "common
> denominators."
>
> Because of the redundancy of messages to be built into the passive 
> controls, human error was
> identified by the task force as the only mechanism that could result 
> in inadvertent intrusion for the
> 10,000 years of regulatory concern. An examination of 80 years of 
> drilling records for the New
> Mexico portion of the Delaware Basin identified no instances of the 
> mislocation of drilling sites
> due to human error. The task force concluded that the failure of 
> passive controls to correctly
> communicate the location and hazards of the waste, thereby detemng 
> inadvertent intrusions for
> the first several hundred years of performance assessments will be no 
> greater than 0.01. This
> failure rate is a bounding value intended to account for possible 
> failure mechanisms that the task
> force failed to identify
>
> Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185
>
> Carlsbad Tectuucal Assistance Conuactor, Carlsbad, NM '. '
>
> Science Applications International Corporation, Albuquerque, NM
> Westinghouse Waste Isolation Division, Carlsbad, NM
>
>   
this means that this assurance, plus a dollar, will get you a cup of 
coffee without sugar.

--Bob
>
>   

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