Radionuclide transport in a water-saturated planar fracture with bentonite extrusion

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 442-464

  Borrelli, R A ^a   Ahn, Joonhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

Author keywords

Bentonite; Near field mass transfer; Performance assessment

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; FRACTURE; MASS TRANSFER; POROSITY; RADIOISOTOPES;

COUPLED MATHEMATICAL MODELING; ENGINEERED BARRIER SYS-TEM; FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION; NEAR FIELDS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES;

BENTONITE;

EID: 58149112278     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT08-A4037     Document Type: Article

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