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Sensitivity Surfaces for the Assessment of Waste Package Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

D. M. Leneveu  and
N. C. Garisto
D. M. Leneveu
Affiliation:
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment, Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada ROE 1LO.
N. C. Garisto
Affiliation:
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment, Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada ROE 1LO.
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Abstract

Sensitivity surfaces have been developed to analyse the performance of engineered barriers of an underground nuclear fuel waste disposal vault. The major engineered barriers are the waste form, the containers and the buffer surrounding the containers. A modular computer code has been developed that calculates the release rate from each barrier. The modules are linked together through the use of time-series-management routines. By systematic variation of the model input parameters, sensitivity surfaces are constructed that illustrate the behaviour of an objective function such as maximum fractional release rate in response to the changes in the input parameters.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 112: Symposium P – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XI , 1987 , 323
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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