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The Nagra/Pnc Grimsel test site Radionuclide Migration Experiment: Rigorous Field Testing of Transport Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

H. Umeki
Affiliation:
PNC (Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation), Tokyo, Japan.
K. Hatanaka
Affiliation:
PNC (Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation), Tokyo, Japan.
W.R. Alexander
Affiliation:
RWIG (Rock-Water Interaction Group), University of Berne, Beme, Switzerland.
I.G. Mckinley
Affiliation:
Nagra (National Co-operative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste), Wettingen, Switzerland.
U. Frick
Affiliation:
Nagra (National Co-operative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste), Wettingen, Switzerland.
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Abstract

The long-term programme of in-situ radionuclide migration experiments in the underground test site at Grimsel (GTS) involves the development and testing of radionuclide transport models with their associated databases. The field experiments are carried out in a water-bearing shear zone in crystalline rock utilising a suite of tracers of differing geochemical behaviour. A rigorous model testing procedure has been developed for the GTS radionuclide migration experiment. This paper describes application of this testing procedure to a solute transport code developed by PNC.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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