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Laboratory and Modelling Studies of Microbial Activity in the Near Field of a HLW Repository
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
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Microbial effects are one of the possible perturbations to the expect-ed performance of a deep geological repository which must be examined as part of a comprehensive safety analysis. Recent literature surveys (eg [1, 2] ) and reconnaisance sampling studies [3, 4] have concluded that: a) microbial contamination of a repository is inevitable b) even for high level nuclear waste, conditions in the near-field are insufficiently extreme to ensure complete sterilisation.
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