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The International INTRAVAL project. Phase 1 case 9: radionuclide migration in a block of crystalline rock

Abstract

This report presents a summary of the work that was carried out within the international INTRAVAL project on Test Case 9, which is based on laboratory tracer experiments in a single fracture in a large block of granite. A non-sorbing tracer (Uranine) and a sorbing tracer (cesium) were used. Tracer breakthrough curves were monitored at five points, which provides some information on the flow paths within the fracture. The test case was tackled by four Project Teams. Most Teams used variants of the standard dual-porosity model that includes the effects of advection, dispersion, diffusion, sorption and matrix-diffusion. One Project Team also considered a model that represents the dispersion due to flow with a varying velocity in a channel, and another Project Team used a model with an aperture that varied stochastically. The teams were able to calibrate their models successfully, and obtained similar estimates of the parameters. It was considered that the experiment provides some support for the standard model, and considerable support for the concept of channelling. 14 refs., 14 figs., 4 tabs.
Authors:
Jackson, C P [1] 
  1. ed.
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
INIS-XN-423
Reference Number:
SCA: 052002; PA: AIX-24:007812; EDB-93:022534; ERA-18:007956; SN: 93000932585
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1992
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; FLOW MODELS; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; GRANITES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS; ADVECTION; BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW RATE; GEOLOGIC FRACTURES; NUMERICAL DATA; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; 052002; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE
OSTI ID:
10119230
Research Organizations:
Nuclear Energy Agency, 75 - Paris (France)
Country of Origin:
NEA
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE93612752; TRN: XN9200105007812
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
[37] p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 30, 2005

Citation Formats

Jackson, C P. The International INTRAVAL project. Phase 1 case 9: radionuclide migration in a block of crystalline rock. NEA: N. p., 1992. Web.
Jackson, C P. The International INTRAVAL project. Phase 1 case 9: radionuclide migration in a block of crystalline rock. NEA.
Jackson, C P. 1992. "The International INTRAVAL project. Phase 1 case 9: radionuclide migration in a block of crystalline rock." NEA.
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title = {The International INTRAVAL project. Phase 1 case 9: radionuclide migration in a block of crystalline rock}
author = {Jackson, C P}
abstractNote = {This report presents a summary of the work that was carried out within the international INTRAVAL project on Test Case 9, which is based on laboratory tracer experiments in a single fracture in a large block of granite. A non-sorbing tracer (Uranine) and a sorbing tracer (cesium) were used. Tracer breakthrough curves were monitored at five points, which provides some information on the flow paths within the fracture. The test case was tackled by four Project Teams. Most Teams used variants of the standard dual-porosity model that includes the effects of advection, dispersion, diffusion, sorption and matrix-diffusion. One Project Team also considered a model that represents the dispersion due to flow with a varying velocity in a channel, and another Project Team used a model with an aperture that varied stochastically. The teams were able to calibrate their models successfully, and obtained similar estimates of the parameters. It was considered that the experiment provides some support for the standard model, and considerable support for the concept of channelling. 14 refs., 14 figs., 4 tabs.}
place = {NEA}
year = {1992}
month = {Dec}
}