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Approximations for Adapting Porous Media Radionuclide Transport Models to Analysis of Transport in Jointed, Porous Rock*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

K. L. Erickson
K. L. Erickson*
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185, USA
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Abstract

Initial criteria are defined which determine when radionuclide transport in jointed, porous rock can be approximated as occurring in an equivalent porous medium. For systems satisfying those criteria, the retardation factor to be used in the equivalent porous media model also is defined.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 15: Symposium D – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management VI , 1982 , 473
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1983

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This work performed at Sandia National Laboratories, a U. S. Department of Energy facility, under contract DE-AC04–76DP00789.

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