10 CFR 60.134
§ 60.134 Design of seals for shafts and boreholes.
United States · 10 CFR — Energy · Status: effective
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- 10 CFR 60.134, § 60.134 Design of seals for shafts and boreholes, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/37919
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(a) General design criterion. Seals for shafts and boreholes shall be designed so that following permanent closure they do not become pathways that compromise the geologic repository's ability to meet the performance objectives or the period following permanent closure.
(b) Selection of materials and placement methods. Materials and placement methods for seals shall be selected to reduce, to the extent practicable:
(1) The potential for creating a preferential pathway for groundwater to contact the waste packages or
(2) For radionuclide migration through existing pathways.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.