Modeling seepage into heated waste emplacement tunnels in unsaturated fractured rock

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 819-836

  Birkholzer, Jens T ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sumit ^a   Tsang, Yvonne W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; SEEPAGE; SOLVENTS;

BOILING TEMPERATURE; EMPLACEMENT DRIFTS; EMPLACEMENT TUNNELS; GEOLOGIC REPOSITORY; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PARTIALLY SATURATED; UNSATURATED FRACTURED ROCKS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

ROCKS;

EID: 27944483867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.3.819     Document Type: Article

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