Microbial occurrence in bentonite-based buffer, backfill and sealing materials from large-scale experiments at AECL's Underground Research Laboratory

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 36-42

  Stroes Gascoyne, Simcha ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bentonite; Microbial activity; Repository; Sealing materials

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC MICROBES; BACKFILL MATERIAL; BUFFER MATERIALS; CHEMICAL PROTECTION; COMPACTED BENTONITE; DEEP GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY; INTERFACE LOCATIONS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL CHARACTERISTICS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; REPOSITORY; ROCK MASS; SEALING MATERIAL; SULPHATE-REDUCING BACTERIA; UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES; USED-FUEL CONTAINERS;

BACTERIA; CLAY MINERALS; COMPACTION; EXPERIMENTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOISOTOPES; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SEALANTS; SILICA; SILICA SAND;

BENTONITE;

BACKFILL; BENTONITE; COMPACTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; SEALING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM;

EID: 72649102881     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2008.07.022     Document Type: Article

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