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Novel Experiments for Understanding the Shallow Land Burial of Low-Level Radioactive Wastes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

G. L. Depoorter  and
T. E. Hakonson
G. L. Depoorter
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Group LS–6, MS–495, P. O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545
T. E. Hakonson
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Group LS–6, MS–495, P. O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Abstract

Data on the basic processes that occur in the shallow land burial of low-level radioactive wastes are needed to engineer facilities with guaranteed performance, to validate models for system predictions, and to provide input to models that consider contaminant pathways out of the facility. Two types of novel experiments that will provide experimental data on the basic processes in shallow land burial facilities are described in this paper. Generic experiments that give data on the movement of water and radionuclides and an experiment that is particularly important for semi-arid sites are described.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 6: Symposium D – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management IV , 1981 , 441
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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