Research on long term safety of nuclear waste disposal at the research center Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract
In Germany the safe disposal of radioactive waste is in the responsibility of the federal government. The R and D performed in the Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal (INE) at the Research Center Karlsruhe contributes to the German provident research in the field of long-term safety for final disposal of high level heat producing nuclear wastes. INE's research is focused on the actinide elements and long lived fission products since these dominate the radiotoxicity over a long time. The research strategy synergistically combines fundamental science of aquatic radionuclide chemistry with applied investigations of real systems (waste form, host rock, aquifer), studied on laboratory scale and in underground laboratories. Because Germany has not yet selected a site for a high-level waste repository, all host rock formations under discussion in the international community (salt, hard rock, clay/tone) are investigated. Emphasis in long-term safety R and D at INE is on the development of actinide speciation methods and techniques in the trace concentration range. (authors)
- Authors:
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- Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut fuer Nukleare Entsorgung, P.O. Box 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 20979584
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Advanced nuclear fuel cycles and systems (GLOBAL 2007), Boise - Idaho (United States), 9-13 Sep 2007; Other Information: Country of input: France; 14 refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of GLOBAL 2007 conference on advanced nuclear fuel cycles and systems, 1873 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; SAFETY; WASTE FORMS
Citation Formats
Gompper, Klaus, Bosbach, Dirk, Denecke, Melissa A, Geckeis, Horst, Kienzler, Bernhard, and Klenze, Reinhardt. Research on long term safety of nuclear waste disposal at the research center Karlsruhe, Germany. United States: N. p., 2007.
Web.
Gompper, Klaus, Bosbach, Dirk, Denecke, Melissa A, Geckeis, Horst, Kienzler, Bernhard, & Klenze, Reinhardt. Research on long term safety of nuclear waste disposal at the research center Karlsruhe, Germany. United States.
Gompper, Klaus, Bosbach, Dirk, Denecke, Melissa A, Geckeis, Horst, Kienzler, Bernhard, and Klenze, Reinhardt. 2007.
"Research on long term safety of nuclear waste disposal at the research center Karlsruhe, Germany". United States.
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title = {Research on long term safety of nuclear waste disposal at the research center Karlsruhe, Germany},
author = {Gompper, Klaus and Bosbach, Dirk and Denecke, Melissa A and Geckeis, Horst and Kienzler, Bernhard and Klenze, Reinhardt},
abstractNote = {In Germany the safe disposal of radioactive waste is in the responsibility of the federal government. The R and D performed in the Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal (INE) at the Research Center Karlsruhe contributes to the German provident research in the field of long-term safety for final disposal of high level heat producing nuclear wastes. INE's research is focused on the actinide elements and long lived fission products since these dominate the radiotoxicity over a long time. The research strategy synergistically combines fundamental science of aquatic radionuclide chemistry with applied investigations of real systems (waste form, host rock, aquifer), studied on laboratory scale and in underground laboratories. Because Germany has not yet selected a site for a high-level waste repository, all host rock formations under discussion in the international community (salt, hard rock, clay/tone) are investigated. Emphasis in long-term safety R and D at INE is on the development of actinide speciation methods and techniques in the trace concentration range. (authors)},
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year = {Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007},
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