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David Rossi, Anna Barra Caracciolo, Paola Grenni, Flavia Cattena, Martina Di Lenola, Luisa Patrolecco, Nicoletta Ademollo, Ruggiero Ciannarella, Giuseppe Mascolo and Stefano Ghergo
The groundwater behavior at a municipal solid waste disposal dump, located in Central Italy, was studied using a multi-parameter monitoring over 1 year consisting of 4 seasonal samples. The hydrological and hydrogeological dynamics of water circulation, ...
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Fraser King, Miroslav Kolàr, Scott Briggs, Mehran Behazin, Peter Keech and Nikitas Diomidis
The disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel (SF) presents a unique challenge for the prediction of the long-term performance of corrodible structures since HLW/SF containers are expected, in some cases, to have lifetimes of ...
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Kathleen A. Law, Stephen Parry, Nicholas D. Bryan, Sarah L. Heath, Steven M. Heald, Darrell Knight, Luke O?Brien, Adam J. Fuller, William R. Bower, Gareth T. W. Law and Francis R. Livens
One of the most challenging components of the UK nuclear legacy is Magnox sludge, arising from the corrosion of Mg alloy-clad irradiated metallic U fuel that has been stored in high pH ponds. The sludges mainly comprise Mg hydroxide and carbonate phases,...
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Vanessa Leblanc, Jennifer Hellal, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Saber Khelaifia, Claire Sergeant, Francis Garrido, Bernard Ollivier and Catherine Joulian
In 2008, as part of a feasibility study for radioactive waste disposal in deep geological formations, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA) drilled several boreholes in the transposition zone in order to define the potential var...
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Anna Suzuki, Sergei Fomin, Vladimir Chugunov and Toshiyuki Hashida
Deep geological repositories for nuclear wastes consist of both engineered and natural geologic barriers to isolate the radioactive material from the human environment. Inappropriate repositories of nuclear waste would cause severe contamination to nearb...
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Henrik Drake, Magnus Ivarsson, Mikael Tillberg, Martin J. Whitehouse and Ellen Kooijman
Recent studies reveal that organisms from all three domains of life—Archaea, Bacteria, and even Eukarya—can thrive under energy-poor, dark, and anoxic conditions at large depths in the fractured crystalline continental crust. There is a need ...
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Hanna Miettinen, Malin Bomberg and Minna Vikman
Crystalline bedrock has been chosen for deep geologic long-term storage of used nuclear fuel in Finland. The risks generated by the deep subsurface microbial communities in these disposal sites need to be well characterised in advance to ensure safety. D...
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Wenbin Yang, Rebecca J. Lunn, Alessandro Tarantino and Gráinne El Mountassir
Geological disposal facilities for radioactive waste pose significant challenges for robust monitoring of environmental conditions within the engineered barriers that surround the waste canister. Temperatures are elevated, due to the presence of heat gen...
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Joachim Heierli and Oliver Genoni
The disposal of heat-generating radioactive waste in deep underground facilities requires a sparing use of spatial resources on the one side and favorable temperature conditions over the project lifetime on the other side. Under heat-sensitive conditions...
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Christopher W. Davies, Colin T. Davie, Charles A. Edward and Maggie L. White
The study investigated the basic geomechanical and mineralogical evolution of the bentonite barrier under various experimental boundary conditions which replicated the near-field Thermo-Hydro-Chemico (THC) conditions in a repository. The relationships be...
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