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Pigford, T.H.; Chambre, P.L.; Lee, W.W.L.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)1989
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)1989
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[en] Salt is a unique rock isolation of nuclear waste because it is ''dry'' and nearly impermeable. In this paper we summarize some mass-transfer and transport analyses of salt repositories. First we analyses brine migration. Heating by high-level waste can cause brine in grain boundaries to move due to pressure-gradients. We analyze brine migration treating salt as a thermoelastic solid and found that brine migration is transient and localized. We use previously developed techniques to estimate release rates from waste packages by diffusion. Interbeds exist in salt and may be conduits for radionuclide migration. We analyze steady-state migration due to brine flow in the interbed, as a function of the Peclet number. Then we analyze transient mass transfer, both into the interbed and directly to salt, due only to diffusion. Finally we compare mass transfer rates of a waste cylinder in granite facing a fracture and in salt facing an interbed. In all cases, numerical illustrations of the analytic solution are given. 10 refs., 4 figs., 3 tabs
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Feb 1989; 5 p; International symposium on safety assessment of radioactive waste repositories; Paris (France); 9-12 Oct 1989; CONF-891008--7; CONTRACT AC03-76SF00098; NTIS, PC A02/MF A01 as DE90014509; OSTI; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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