Reference material chemistry: synthetic groundwater formulation

Technical Report · Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6532562

Jones, T E

As part of the evaluation of the basalt formations underlying the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, as a possible repository site for the long-term storage of nuclear wastes, a recipe was developed for the preparation of a synthetic Grande Ronde Basalt groundwater. The recipe is based on water samples collected from the test horizon just below the Umtanum flow (3242 to 3529 ft). The recipe presented establishes two stable concentrated stock solutions. Forty liters of synthetic groundwater can be prepared from 1 L of each stock solution. Limitations of the synthetic groundwater recipe are discussed. It was perceived that water from this test horizon would be the most likely to migrate into either of the two candidate repository horizons within the Grande Ronde Basalt (i.e., the Umtanum and middle Sentinel Bluffs flows).

• Research Organization: Rockwell International Corp., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-77RL01030
• OSTI ID: 6532562
• Report Number(s): RHO-BW-ST-37-P; ON: DE83004413
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
BASALT
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
GEOCHEMISTRY
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