Salt barrier integrity during gas pressure build-up in a radioactive waste repository - Implications from lab and field investigations

44th US Rock Mechanics Symposium - 5th US/Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Popp, Till ^a   Minkley, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Institut fur Gebirgsmechanik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CORROSION; CRITICAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD SCALE; FORMATION PRESSURE; GAS INJECTION; GAS PRESSURES; GAS TRANSPORT; OVER-PRESSURES; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; PERMEATION PROCESS; PRESSURE BUILD UP; RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY; SALT FORMATION; TIME DEPENDENT;

GASES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; PNEUMATICS; PRESSURE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

GAS PERMEABILITY;

EID: 78751550664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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