repository

Any system licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that is intended to be used for, or may be used for, the permanent deep geologic disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, whether or not such system is designed to permit the recovery, for a limited period during initial operation, of any materials placed in such system. Such term includes both surface and subsurface areas at which high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel handling activities are conducted.

(Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982)

Re*pos"i*to*ry (r?*p?z"?*t$*r?), n. [L. repositorium, repostorium: cf. OF. repositoire.]

A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.

Locke.

© Webster 1913.