Items for "Radionuclide migration"

Modeling spent nuclear fuel alteration and radionuclide migration in disposal conditions

A physico-chemical model developed for spent fuel alteration was integrated in a global reactive transport model of a spent fuel disposal system, considering both decaying and stable isotopes, corroded steel canisters, bentonite backfills and a clayey host-rock...

Keywords: Radioactive waste, Radiolysis, Radionuclide migration, Reactive transport, UO2