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Reactive Transport Modeling of Radionuclide Source-Terms in an Underground Spent Fuel Disposal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011
Abstract
The reactive transport model HYTEC was used to simulate the migration over 100,000 years of cesium, americium and uranium released from spent fuel packages in the near-field components of an underground stiff clay disposal site. A global equilibrium thermodynamic approach including kinetic control of the spent fuel pellets was used with instantaneous release fractions and congruent dissolutions of the rim and the core zones. A failure scenario of the waste package after 10,000 years was considered with magnetite as the main corrosion product. The retention properties of magnetite and the different effects of bentonite and cementitious backfill materials were specifically analysed.
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