Analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical process in the engineered barrier system of a high-level waste repository

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 240, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1688-1698

  Cho, Won Jin ^a   Lee, Jae Owan ^a   Kwon, Sangki ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; ENGINEERED BARRIER SYSTEM; HEAT FLOWS; HIGH LEVEL WASTE REPOSITORY; INPUT PARAMETER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MULTICOMPONENT FLUID; THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL PROCESS; TOTAL PRESSURE;

BENTONITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; WATER CONTENT;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77950950162     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2010.02.027     Document Type: Article

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