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[en] Exact analytical solutions based on Laplace transforms are derived for describing the one-dimensional space- and time-dependent advective transport of a decaying species in a layered, fractured, saturated rock system. The rock layers are parallel and horizontal and of uniform thickness. The fracture intersects normally to the rock layers and is of varying aperture across its length. The fracture network is serial in nature and of uniform thickness within each layer. Fluid movement is assumed to be exclusive to the fracture network. These solutions, which account for advection in fracture, molecular diffusion into the rock matrix, adsorption in both fracture and matrix, and radioactive decay, predict the concentrations in both fracture and rock matrix and the cumulative mass in the fracture. The solute migration domain in both fracture and rock is assumed to be semi-infinite with nonzero initial conditions. The concentration of each nuclide at the source is allowed to decay either continuously or according to some periodical fluctuations where both are subjected to either a step or band release mode. Two numerical examples related to the transport of 237Np and 245Cm in a five-layered system of fractured rock are used to verify these solutions with several well-established evaluation methods of Laplace inversion integrals in the real and complex domain. In addition, with respect to the model parameters, a comparison of the analytically derived local sensitivities for the concentration and cumulative mass of 237Np in the fracture with the ones obtained through a finite difference method of approximation is also reported
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ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CURIUM ISOTOPES, ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT, EVEN-ODD NUCLEI, GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES, HEAVY NUCLEI, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, MANAGEMENT, MASS TRANSFER, MATERIALS, NEPTUNIUM ISOTOPES, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOACTIVE WASTES, RADIOISOTOPES, SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTES, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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