Application of GEOTHER/VT4 to Assess Groundwater Transients in a High Level Radioactive Waste Repository

Bian, S. H.; Budden, M. J.; Yung, S. C.

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2301-0_23

S. H. Bian⁵,
M. J. Budden⁵ &
S. C. Yung⁶

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The GEOTHER/VT4 computer code is an improved version of the GEOTHER computer code. The GEOTHER/VT4 code was applied to a two-dimensional simulation of a waste package in a high-level waste repository to predict the thermal-hydraulic environment where steam formation may occur. The thermal-hydraulic environment is important for assessing waste package container corrosion and packing material swelling behaviours and for evaluating the near-field geochemical conditions. The waste package was assumed to be situated in the Cohassett flow of the Hanford site, located in Washington State. This analysis provides the first assessment of the duration and size of a two-phase environment for the waste package.

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Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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Westinghouse Hanford Company, Richland, Washington, USA
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International Ground Water Modeling Center, Delft, The Netherlands
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Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel
J. Bear (co-chairman) (co-chairman)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Y. Y. Haimes (chairman) (chairman)
TNO Institute of Applied Geoscience, Delft, The Netherlands
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Bian, S.H., Budden, M.J., Yung, S.C. (1989). Application of GEOTHER/VT4 to Assess Groundwater Transients in a High Level Radioactive Waste Repository. 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_23

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