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Hydrothermal Waste Package Interactions With Methane-Containing Basalt Groundwater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

B. P. McGrail
B. P. McGrail*
Affiliation:
Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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Abstract

Hydrothermal waste package interaction tests were conducted with a mixture of crushed glass, basalt, and steel in methane-containing synthetic basalt groundwater. In the absence of gamma radiolysis, methane was found to have little influence on the corrosion behavior of the waste package constituents. Under gamma radiolysis, methane was found to significantly lower the solution oxidation potential when compared to identical tests without methane. In addition, colloidal hydrocarbon polymers that have been produced under the irradiation conditions of these experiments were not formed. The presence of the waste package constituents apparently inhibited the formation of the polymers. However, the mechanism which prevented their formation was not determined.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 44: Symposium N – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management VIII , 1984 , 459
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1985

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