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Improved Radionuclide Transport Models for a Nuclear Waste Repository

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Richard B. Codell
Richard B. Codell*
Affiliation:
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington D.C. 20555
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Abstract

NRC is developing improved models for transport of chain decay radionuclides in porous and fractured/porous media using finite-difference for spatial discretization, and numerical inversion of Laplace transforms for time. This hybrid technique allows great flexibility for spatial variability, flow rate changes and boundary conditions that are difficult with analytical solutions, and are much faster than solutions fully in the time domain. This paper presents the status of NRC's development of a method for transport through fractured porous media at the proposed Yucca Mountain repository, building on the work of a number of authors.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 412: Symposium V – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIX , 1995 , 731
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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