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Migration Rates of Brine Inclusions in Single Crystals of Nacl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

I-Ming Chou
I-Ming Chou*
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U.S. Geological Survey, 959 National Center, Reston, VA 22092
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Rock-salt deposits have been considered as a possible medium for the permanent storage of high-level radioactive wastes and spent fuel. Brine inclusions present in natural salt can migrate toward the waste if the temperature and the temperature gradients in the vicinity of the radioactive waste are large enough. This migration is due to the dissolution of salt at the hot side of the salt-brine interface, ion diffusion through the brine droplet, and the precipitation of salt at the cold side of the salt brine interface.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 6: Symposium D – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management IV , 1981 , 303
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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