Radionuclide migration through an unsaturated clay buffer under thermal and hydraulic gradients for a nuclear waste repository

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-81

  Cho, Won Jin ^a   Lee, Jae Owan ^a   Choi, Heui Joo ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Engineered barrier system; Radionuclide migration; Thermal hydrological chemical process; Unsaturated bentonite

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMPACTED BENTONITE; DIFFUSIONAL TRANSPORT; ENGINEERED BARRIER SYSTEM; GAS PHASIS; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; LINEAR SORPTION; MULTICOMPONENT FLUID; NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT; THERMAL-HYDROLOGICAL-CHEMICAL PROCESS; UNSATURATED CLAY; VARIABLE SATURATION;

ADSORPTION; BENTONITE; CESIUM; CESIUM IODIDE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84866481791     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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