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The CALIBRE source-term code: technical documentation for Project-90

Abstract

A numerical model has been developed which simulates the diffusion of radionuclides from a high-level waste canister, through a backfill region and into a fractured rock matrix. The model includes chain decay and ingrowth, linear equilibrium sorption, solubility limiting and response to a redox front as it emerges from the canister and migrates through the near-field. Radial advection (which approximates the advection downstream from the canister and buffer) is applied in the fracture, in addition to diffusion or dispersion. This document describes the mathematical model and numerical methods used in developing CALIBRE, together with a number of verification tests which compare the results with those computed using analytic solutions. (au).
Authors:
Robinson, P; Worgan, K [1] 
  1. Intera Environmental Division, Chiltern House, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (United Kingdom)
Publication Date:
Mar 01, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
SKI-TR-91-18
Reference Number:
SCA: 990200; 052002; PA: AIX-24:033994; SN: 93000963646
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Mar 1992
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; BACKFILLING; C CODES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOLOGIC FRACTURES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIQUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; ROCKS; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; 990200; 052002; MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS; WASTE DISPOSAL AND STORAGE
OSTI ID:
10135611
Research Organizations:
Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, Stockholm (Sweden)
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE93621319; TRN: SE9300019033994
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS; INIS
Submitting Site:
SWDN
Size:
[47] p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 05, 2005

Citation Formats

Robinson, P, and Worgan, K. The CALIBRE source-term code: technical documentation for Project-90. Sweden: N. p., 1992. Web.
Robinson, P, & Worgan, K. The CALIBRE source-term code: technical documentation for Project-90. Sweden.
Robinson, P, and Worgan, K. 1992. "The CALIBRE source-term code: technical documentation for Project-90." Sweden.
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title = {The CALIBRE source-term code: technical documentation for Project-90}
author = {Robinson, P, and Worgan, K}
abstractNote = {A numerical model has been developed which simulates the diffusion of radionuclides from a high-level waste canister, through a backfill region and into a fractured rock matrix. The model includes chain decay and ingrowth, linear equilibrium sorption, solubility limiting and response to a redox front as it emerges from the canister and migrates through the near-field. Radial advection (which approximates the advection downstream from the canister and buffer) is applied in the fracture, in addition to diffusion or dispersion. This document describes the mathematical model and numerical methods used in developing CALIBRE, together with a number of verification tests which compare the results with those computed using analytic solutions. (au).}
place = {Sweden}
year = {1992}
month = {Mar}
}