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10.3 Deposition technology 121
10.3.1 Requirements and premises 121
10.3.2 Handling and deposition 121
10.4 Backfilling and closure 122
10.4.1 Requirements and premises 122
10.4.2 Materials and compaction technology 122
10.4.3 Plugging of deposition tunnels 123
10.5 Sealing of investigation boreholes 124
10.5.1 Requirements and premises 124
10.5.2 Technology for sealing of boreholes 125
10.6 Canister retrieval 125
10.6.1 Requirements and premises 126
10.6.2 Freeing of canister 126
10.7 KBS-3 with horizontal deposition 127
11 Deep repository – design 129
11.1 Design methodology 129
11.2 Premises 130
11.2.1 Design premises 130
11.2.2 Control and verification 132
11.2.3 Documentation 133
11.3 Execution – stepwise design 134
12 Deep repository – monitoring 139
12.1 Monitoring 139
12.2 Safeguards and physical protection 141
Part III Safety assessment and research
13 Overview – safety assessment and research 145
13.1 Safety assessment 145
13.2 Research on long-term safety 146
13.2.1 Fuel 149
13.2.2 Canister 149
13.2.3 Buffer 149
13.2.4 Backfill 150
13.2.5 Geosphere 150
13.2.6 Biosphere 150
13.2.7 Climate 151
13.2.8 Natural analogues 151
13.2.9 Research in the Äspö HRL 151
13.3 Social science research 152
13.3.1 Socioeconomic effects 152
13.3.2 Decision processes 153
13.3.3 Psychosocial effects 153
13.3.4 Global changes 153
13.4 Alternative methods 153
13.4.1 Partitioning and transmutation (P&T) 153
13.4.2 Very Deep Holes (VDH) 153
14 Safety assessment 155
14.1 Methodology for assessment of long-term safety of deep repository 155
14.2 Integrated modelling 156
14.2.1 System development 156
14.2.2 Radionuclide transport and dose 158
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