DECOVALEX Project: From 1992 to 2007

Environmental Geology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1221-1237

  Tsang, Chin Fu ^a   Stephansson, Ove ^b   Jing, Lanru ^c   Kautsky, Fritz ^d  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Geoscience; Quantitative Hydrogeology; Waste Management

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPERS; COUPLED PROCESS; FINLAND; FRACTURED ROCKS; GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS; GEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; GEOSCIENCE; GERMANY; HYDRO MECHANICALS; IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION MODELS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE HYDROGEOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORIES; REGULATORY AUTHORITIES; RESEARCH REPORTS; RESEARCH TEAMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACKFILL; FRACTURE ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; THERMOHYDROMECHANICS; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 65149103150     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1625-1     Document Type: Article

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