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Modelling the Consumption of Oxygen by Container Corrosion and Reaction with Fe(II)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M. Kolář  and
F. King
M. Kolář
Affiliation:
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Whiteshell Laboratories, Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada R0E 1L0.
F. King
Affiliation:
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Whiteshell Laboratories, Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada R0E 1L0.
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Abstract

A model is described that predicts the rate of O2 consumption in a sealed nuclear fuel waste disposal vault as a result of container corrosion, reaction with biotite and the oxidation of organics and other oxidizable impurities in the clay. The most important reactions leading to the consumption of O2 for Cu containers in a conceptual Canadian disposal vault are container corrosion, the oxidation of dissolved Cu(I) and the oxidation of organics and other impurities in the clay. Consumption of O2 by the oxidation of dissolved Fe(II) from biotite is significant in backfill materials containing crushed granite and in the rock itself. The O2 initially trapped in the disposal vault is predicted to be consumed in between 50 and 670 a.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 412: Symposium V – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIX , 1995 , 547
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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