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Harmonisation of Site Characterisation and Performance Assessment Modelling - The Relative Importance of Surface Sorption and Matrix Interaction Phenomena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

James Crawford ,
Luis Moreno  and
Ivars Neretnieks
James Crawford
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Luis Moreno
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
Ivars Neretnieks
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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Abstract

In the context of geological repositories for nuclear waste disposal, the goal of site characterisation (SC) is to obtain input data that can later be used as a basis for performance assessment calculations (PA). Performance assessment is required to give an indication as to whether the repository will behave as intended over the geological timescales relevant for risk analysis.

Processes that may be important in a PA setting for constraining radionuclide transport may not necessarily be dominating, or indeed may not even be observable during SC investigations.

In this paper it is shown that the migration of sorbing tracers is governed largely by surface sorption phenomena in typical SC-type field experiments whereas in a PA scenario, matrix interaction instead can be expected to play an overwhelmingly important role. This study uses data and settings that are representative for fractured rocks in Sweden, but the method used and the conclusions may have more general applicability.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 807: Symposium Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXVII , 2003 , 551
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2004

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