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Accurate characterization of the hydrogeologic conditions in the vicinity of potential high level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal sites is important in waste site performance assessments because of the need to predict future hydrologic conditions at the site. A major difficulty in developing an accurate hydrogeologic characterization is the lack of detailed hydrogeologic data for the site. Since the hydrogeologic properties at the site are heterogeneous (i.e., spatially variable) and the data are spatially sparse, the lack of data results in uncertainty in the hydrologic properties of the site and, therefore, in the conceptual model (i.e., geometry, initial conditions, boundary conditions) used for prediction of future hydrologic conditions.
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McNeish, J.A., Andrews, R.W. (1989). Indirect Evaluation of Hydrogeologic Spatial Correlation Length: An Approach to Quantification of Hydraulic Conductivity Variance Reduction Using Synthetic Hydraulic Tests. In: Jousma, G., Bear, J., Haimes, Y.Y., Walter, F. (eds) Groundwater Contamination: Use of Models in Decision-Making. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2301-0_20
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