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Mechanisms of Dissolution of Radioactive Waste Storage Glasses and Caesium Migration From a Granite Repository

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Neil A. Chapman ,
Ian G. Mckinley ,
David Savage  and
Julia M. West
Neil A. Chapman
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Environmental Protection Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 ORA, United Kingdom.
Ian G. Mckinley
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Environmental Protection Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 ORA, United Kingdom.
David Savage
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Environmental Protection Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 ORA, United Kingdom.
Julia M. West
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Environmental Protection Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 ORA, United Kingdom.
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Abstract

Experimental and theoretical data are used to compare the effect of three possible leach mechanisms for borosilicate glass waste buried in a granite host-rock on the release and subsequent migration of 135Cs. Protracted release episodes and variations of up to an order of magnitude in groundwater transport times and five orders in output concentrations are possible.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 6: Symposium D – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management IV , 1981 , 347
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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