The petrographic criteria of selection of geological environments for building high-level waste (HLW) repository

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OSTI ID:100860

Omelyanenko, B I; Petrov, V A; Yudintsev, S V ^[1]; Zaraisky, G P ^[2]; Starostin, V I ^[3]

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1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation). Inst. of Ore Geology
2. Russian Academy of Science, Moscow (Russian Federation). Inst. of Experimental Mineralogy
3. Moscow State Univ., RU (United States). Geological Dept.

Igneous rocks of basic composition (basalts, diabases, gabbro-dolerites, dunites, etc.) are an appropriate geological environment for high-level waste disposal. During interaction with hot ground waters their isolation ability will increase due to the decrease of hydraulic permeability and increase of their sorption ability. According to petrophysical characteristics, such rocks are viscous-rigid media with the highest mechanical stability and do not undergo any changes in properties over the whole temperature range, which is possible in a HLW repository.

• OSTI ID: 100860
• Report Number(s): CONF-930906-; ISBN 0-7918-0691-X; TRN: 95:019666
• Resource Relation: Conference: `93 international conference on nuclear waste management and environmental remediation, Prague (Czech Republic), 5-11 Sep 1993; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 1993 international conference on nuclear waste management and environmental remediation. Volume 1: Low and intermediate level radioactive waste management; Alexandre, D.; Baker, R.; Kohout, R.; Marek, J. [eds.]; PB: 776 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
SITE CHARACTERIZATION
IGNEOUS ROCKS
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
PETROGRAPHY
ROCK-FLUID INTERACTIONS
DENSITY
POROSITY
POISSON RATIO
YOUNG MODULUS
HARDNESS
COMPRESSION STRENGTH
VISCOSITY