Radionuclide transport in fractured granite interface zones

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 33, Issue 14-16, 2008, Pages 1042-1049

  Hu, Q H ^a   Mori A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Diffusion; Granite; Grimsel Test Site; Radionuclide; Transport

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACTINIDES; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DIFFUSION; GRANITE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NUCLEAR FUELS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHOTORESISTS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RADIOISOTOPES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SORPTION; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

DIFFUSION PATHS; FLOW CHANNELS; FRACTURE FILLINGS; FRACTURE WALLS; GRANITIC ROCKS; GRIMSEL TEST SITE; GRIMSEL TEST SITES; IN-SITU; LABORATORY TESTS; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MATRIX DIFFUSIONS; MATRIX REGIONS; MIGRATION PATHS; MS TECHNIQUES; MYLONITE; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PENETRATION DEPTHS; RADIO-NUCLIDES; RADIONUCLIDE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATIONS; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORTS; ROCK MATRIXES; SHEAR ZONES; SMALL SCALES; SORPTION CAPACITIES; SWITZERLAND; TIME-SCALE; TRANSPORT; URANIUM ISOTOPES;

FRACTURE;

ACTINIDE; DETECTION METHOD; DIFFUSION; FRACTURE ZONE; GRANITE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INTERFACE; LABORATORY METHOD; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SORPTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 54549116019     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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