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Numerical Simulation of Flow and Transport in Fractured Tuff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

B. J. Travis ,
S. W. Hodson ,
H. E. Nuttall ,
T. L. Cook  and
R. S. Rundberg
B. J. Travis
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545;
S. W. Hodson
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545;
H. E. Nuttall
Affiliation:
Nuttall and Associates, Inc., 1445 Honeysuckle Dr., N. E., Albuquerque, New Mexico 87122
T. L. Cook
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545;
R. S. Rundberg
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545;
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Abstract

The unsaturated, fractured tuff of Yucca Mountain in the Nevada Test Site is one of the potential sites for geologic storage of high-level radioactive waste. A modeling study of flow and transport in this geologically complex site is presented. Numerical models of mass and heat flow in conjunction with analytical solutions are being used for sensitivity and pathway analysis studies and to aid in design and interpretation of laboratory and field flow and transport tests in tuff.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 26: Symposium D – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management VII , 1983 , 1039
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1984

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