Abstract
Fundamental processes governing radionuclide migration in the geosphere were investigated in the FUNMIG project. Component 6 coordinated the linking of the scientific work performed in Components 1 to 5 to its use in performance assessment and monitored the improvements achieved within this project for individual safety cases. Boundary conditions for the near-field of a radioactive waste repository, in particular radionuclide fluxes and concentrations but also repository induced perturbations of the geosphere, were defined based on existing safety cases and on the outcome of the NF-PRO project . A catalogue providing concise information for each task performed in FUNMIG was compiled. It facilitates the retrieval of knowledge acquired within FUNMIG and was used to map these tasks to international lists of Features, Events and Processes for clay-rich, crystalline and salt host rocks. The subsequent evaluation revealed issues important for future safety cases, namely the mechanistic understanding, quantification and up-scaling of radionuclide diffusion in clay-rich host rocks and, for crystalline host rocks, the influence of colloids on radionuclide transport and the up-scaling of reactive transport modelling in fractured systems.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Conference Proceedings EURADWASTE'08. Seventh European Commission Conference on the Management and Disposal of RAdioactive Waste |
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Place of Publication | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
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Pages | 353-359 |
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Publication status | Published - Dec 2009 |
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Event | EURADWASTE 2008 - 7th European Commission Conference on the Management and Disposal of Radioactive Waste - European Commission, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Duration: 20 Oct 2008 → 23 Oct 2008 |
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Name | EUR series |
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Number | 24040 |
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Conference | EURADWASTE 2008 - 7th European Commission Conference on the Management and Disposal of Radioactive Waste |
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Country/Territory | Luxembourg |
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City | Luxembourg |
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Period | 2008-10-20 → 2008-10-23 |
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