• DocumentCode
    2572891
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-3 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    44
  • Lastpage
    46
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering Computation, 2009. ICEC '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3655-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEC.2009.21
  • Filename
    5167087