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The Brine Migration Test - A Nuclear Waste Repository Simulation Experiment at the Asse Salt Mine - Federal Republic of Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

T. Rothfuchs ,
K. Wieczorek ,
E. G. Mcnulty ,
S. K. Gupta  and
D. Clark
T. Rothfuchs
Affiliation:
Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München, Institut für Tieflagerung, D-3300Braunschweig, FRG
K. Wieczorek
Affiliation:
Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München, Institut für Tieflagerung, D-3300Braunschweig, FRG
E. G. Mcnulty
Affiliation:
Battelle Memorial Institute, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Hereford, Texas 79045, USA
S. K. Gupta
Affiliation:
Battelle Memorial Institute, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Hereford, Texas 79045, USA
D. Clark
Affiliation:
Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, c/o GSF/IfT, 0–3300Braunschweig, FRG
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Abstract

A joint US/FRG nuclear waste repository simulation experiment was performed at the Asse Salt Mine in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The High Level Waste (HLW) disposal in boreholes was simulated by the simultaneous emplacement of electrical heaters and cobalt-60 sources at four individual test sites located in a special underground test room at the 800 m-level.

In order to resolve the issues of rock mass/waste package interaction the temperature field, brine migration into the heater boreholes, borehole gas pressure and composition, and rock mass stresses and displacements were monitored during the test. In order to validate computer code predictions the acquired data were compared to calculational results. Corrosion specimens remained in the heater boreholes during the course of the experiment and were afterwards examined.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 127: Symposium BERLIN – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XII , 1988 , 613
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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