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Alligator rivers analogue project an OECD/NEA international project

Journal Article · · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
OSTI ID:182127
;  [1];  [2]
  1. ANSTO, Menai (Australia)
  2. OECD/NEA Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)
The Koongarra uranium deposit in the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia was studied as a natural analogue of the far field behaviour of high level waste repositories following groundwater ingress. A number of mathematical modelling approaches were developed for processes as diverse as groundwater transport, host rock weathering, radionuclide sorption, evolution of the uranium dispersion fan and the distribution of uranium series nuclides between mineral assemblages in weathered host rock. Some of these models are relevant to performance assessment at the level of individual processes and subsystem performance. Through the project, new insights into the application of the natural analogue approach to the assessment of potential waste repository sites were obtained.
OSTI ID:
182127
Report Number(s):
CONF-940501--
Journal Information:
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Journal Issue: Suppl.1 Vol. 70; ISSN 0003-018X; ISSN TANSAO
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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