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Finite Element Modelling of Transport of Radium-226 and Uranium from Port Granby Radioactive Waste Management Site to Lake Ontario

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Reliability of Radioactive Transfer Models

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The development and verification of a finite element model for delineating radioactive contaminant plumes via groundwater are described. The model is then used to predict the migration of 226Ra and U from the near-shore Port Granby waste management site to Lake Ontario. The model predicts that the continuous migration, via groundwater, of both contaminants toward Lake Ontario is likely to persist even after the waste is removed from the site.

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  1. Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario, L7R 4A6, Canada

    S. R. Joshi & A. G. Bobba

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  1. Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium

    G. Desmet

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Joshi, S.R., Bobba, A.G. (1988). Finite Element Modelling of Transport of Radium-226 and Uranium from Port Granby Radioactive Waste Management Site to Lake Ontario. In: Desmet, G. (eds) Reliability of Radioactive Transfer Models. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1369-1_22

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