Engineering-scale test on the thermal-hydro-mechanical behaviors in the clay barrier of a HLW repository

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1386-1396

  Lee, Jae Owan ^a   Park, Jeong Hwa ^a   Cho, Won Jin ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BENTONITE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CLAY MINERALS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CURING; DRYING; HYDRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; PRESSURE; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SILICONES; SURFACES; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL SPRAYING; WATER CONTENT;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (1 1 0) SURFACE; CAPILLARY FORCES; ELSEVIER (CO); ENGINEERED BARRIER SYSTEM; EVOLUTION (CO); EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH LEVEL WASTE (HLW); HLW REPOSITORY; HYDRO MECHANICAL (HM); RELATIVE HUMIDITY (RH); SWELLING PRESSURES; TOTAL PRESSURE; WETTING PROCESSES;

CLAY;

EID: 45449113331     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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