Title :
Self-Sealing Behavior of High Level Waste Repository in Rock Salt Formation
Author :
Wang, Guijun ; Wang, Chunming ; Guo, Kangmei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Civil Eng., Hebei Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
Numerical creep analyses on rock salt surrounding repository for high level waste (HLW) are carried out using the software FLAC3D. The results show that the cavity tends to be self-sealed. After near 600 years, the repository space is nearly fully closed and HLW can be kept tightly sealed. Therefore, it is very favorable to build safe repositories for nuclear waste in rock salt formation.
Keywords :
creep; geophysics computing; rocks; high level waste repository; repository space; rock salt formation; rock salt surrounding repository; self-sealing behavior; Biosphere; Civil engineering; Creep; Deformable models; Geology; Numerical models; Radioactive pollution; Radioactive waste; Space technology; Temperature; HLW repository; creep; rock salt; self-sealing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Computation, 2009. ICEC '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3655-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICEC.2009.21
