A coupled non-isothermal reactive transport model for long-term geochemical evolution of a HLW repository in clay

Environmental Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1627-1638

  Yang, Changbing ^a   Samper, Javier ^a   Montenegro, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Geoscience; Waste management

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

GEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION; HYPERALKALINE PLUME; MULTICOMPONENT REACTIVE TRANSPORT CODES; UNSATURATED WATER FLOW;

CLAY;

CLAY; DISSOLUTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RADIOACTIVE WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38749127221     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0770-2     Document Type: Article

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