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Testing Safety Assessment Models Using Natural Analogues in High Natural-Series Groundwaters. The Second Year of the Pocos De Caldas Project.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

John Smellie ,
Neil Chapman ,
Ian McKinley ,
Eduardo Penna Franca  and
Michael Shea
John Smellie
Affiliation:
Swedish Geological Co., Uppsala, Sweden
Neil Chapman
Affiliation:
British Geological Survey, Nottingham, UK
Ian McKinley
Affiliation:
Nagra, Baden, Switzerland
Eduardo Penna Franca
Affiliation:
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Michael Shea
Affiliation:
Battelle Project Management Division, Chicago, USA.
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Abstract

Progress in the second year of the project is outlined in terms of four analogue objectives. Results of modelling of the preliminary data sets on groundwater chemical speciation of radionuclides, colloids, redox processes, and hydrothermal fluid transport are presented.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 127: Symposium BERLIN – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XII , 1988 , 863
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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