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Transport of Actinides Through a Bentonite Backfill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

B. Torstenfelt ,
H. Kipatsi ,
K. Andersson ,
B. Allard  and
U. Olofsson
B. Torstenfelt
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, S–412 96 Göteborg, Sweden.
H. Kipatsi
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, S–412 96 Göteborg, Sweden.
K. Andersson
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, S–412 96 Göteborg, Sweden.
B. Allard
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, S–412 96 Göteborg, Sweden.
U. Olofsson
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, S–412 96 Göteborg, Sweden.
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Compacted bentonite has been proposed as a suitable backfill material in the Swedish concept for underground storage of high-level waste. The backfill barrier will serve both as a physical barrier, preventing convective water flow and allowing radionuclide penetration only by diffusion, and as a chemical barrier capable of chemically interacting with the radionuclides.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 11: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management V , 1981 , 659
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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