Published 1989 | Version v1
Report

Monitoring of Miit glass solution interactions by brine analysis

  • 1. Catholic Univ. of America, Washington DC (USA). Vitreous State Lab.

Description

Analyses of brine samples taken from borehole MIIT=8 at the WIPP site were carried out in order to study the leaching behavior of the brine in this system. The standard addition method was used with the analytical techniques of AA, DCP and ICP-MS to determine the concentration of the components in the brine. The changes in the concentration of the major components, Na, Mg and K can be explained by reactions of the brine with the rock salt walls of the borehole. From the data obtained for the other components no leaching of the SRL-Y glass discs in the test could be observed. It was however possible to determine an upper limit for leaching of the glass from isotope ratio studies made on Li which yielded a value for the leach rate of lithium from the glass of 0.117 g m-2 d-1

Part of:
Testing of high-level waste forms under repository conditions

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Testing of high-level waste forms under repository conditions
Imprint Pagination
302 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 204-210.
Report number
EUR--12017

Conference

Title
Workshop jointly organized by CEC, US DOE and CEA.
Dates
17-21 Oct 1988.
Place
Cadarache (France).

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