RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION IN TUFF UNDER UNSATURATED CONDITIONS
An understanding of the transport of radionuclides through unsaturated and saturated tuffaceous material is essential in assessing the safety of the proposed high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Migration experiments with conservative and chemically reactive non-radioactive tracers have been performed at the Busted Butte Unsaturated Zone underground facility, SE of Yucca Mountain, and with radionuclides in columns of crushed tuff at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In this paper, complementary radionuclide migration experiments, performed under unsaturated conditions in a small block of tuff excavated from Busted Butte, are described.
- Research Organization:
- Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Oak Ridge, TN
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 860270
- Report Number(s):
- NA; MOL.20001120.0124 DC#26995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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