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The Effect of Microbial Activity on the Containment of Radioactive Waste in a Deep Geological Repository

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Julia M. West ,
Ian G. Mckinley  and
Neil A. Chapman
Julia M. West
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Unit, Institute of Geological Sciences, Building 151, Harwell Laboratory, Oxfordshire. OX11 ORA, United Kingdom.
Ian G. Mckinley
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Unit, Institute of Geological Sciences, Building 151, Harwell Laboratory, Oxfordshire. OX11 ORA, United Kingdom.
Neil A. Chapman
Affiliation:
Environmental Protection Unit, Institute of Geological Sciences, Building 151, Harwell Laboratory, Oxfordshire. OX11 ORA, United Kingdom.
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Much effort is currently centred on the construction of elaborate computer programs to model the release to the biosphere of radionuclides from proposed high level radioactive waste repositories in deep geological formations. Although the lack or poor quality of background data is often emphasised, it is generally considered that by examining a wide range of possible values of the important parameters involved, likely processes are assessed or their omission and possible relevence is acknowledged.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 11: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management V , 1981 , 831
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1982

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