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A Comparative Analysis Of Fractured and Porous Medium Radionuclide Transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

B. J. Travis  and
H. E. Nuttall
B. J. Travis
Affiliation:
Earth and Space Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545,
H. E. Nuttall
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, Univerity of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
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Modeling of radionuclide transport in geological formations has until recently been limited to the treatment of nonfractured porous media. Recently researchers in Sweden, Canada, France, and the USA have become interested in the problems of nuclide transport in geological formations which may contain fractures. Since many conventional porous-medium ion-transport codes are available, the question arises as to when fracture widths and fracture frequency dictate the use of these existing codes.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 11: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management V , 1981 , 821
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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