Characterizing unsaturated diffusion in porous tuff gravel

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1425-1438

  Hu, Qinhong ^a,b   Kneafsey, Timothy J ^a   Roberts, Jeffery J ^a,b   Tomutsa, Liviu ^a   Wang, Joseph S Y ^a  

^a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; GEOMETRY; GRAVEL; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE WATERS; TOMOGRAPHY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CONTENT;

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY; NERNST-EINSTEIN EQUATION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 33847181867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/3.4.1425     Document Type: Article

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