The impact of preferential flow on the vaporization barrier above waste emplacement drifts at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Nuclear Technology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 138-150

  Birkholzer, Jens T ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sumit ^a   Tsang, Yvonne Y W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger flow; Unsaturated tuff; Vaporization

Indexed keywords

BOILING LIQUIDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INFILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SEEPAGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VAPORIZATION;

FINGER FLOW; HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE; UNSATURATED TUFF;

GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES;

EID: 9444242108     PISSN: 00295450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NT04-A3554     Document Type: Article

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