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Aqueous Phase Diffusion in Crystalline Rock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

M.H. Bradbury ,
D. Lever  and
D. Kinsey
M.H. Bradbury
Affiliation:
Harwell Laboratories, Oxfordshire, OX11 ORA, England
D. Lever
Affiliation:
Harwell Laboratories, Oxfordshire, OX11 ORA, England
D. Kinsey
Affiliation:
Harwell Laboratories, Oxfordshire, OX11 ORA, England
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One of the options being considered for the disposal of radioactive waste is deep burial in crystalline rocks such as granite. It is generally recognised that in such rocks groundwater flows mainly through the fracture networks so that these will be the “highways” for the return of radionuclides to the biosphere. The main factors retarding the radionuclide transport have been considered to be the slow water movement in the fissures over the long distances involved together with sorption both in man-made barriers surrounding the waste, and onto rock surfaces and degradation products in the fissures.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 11: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management V , 1981 , 569
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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