Stability and Buffering Capacity of the Geosphere for Long-term Isolation of Radioactive Waste [electronic resource]: Application to Crystalline Rock /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Clay Club Workshop(2007 :Manchester, England)
Nuclear Energy Agency.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2009.
Geological settings selected as potential host formations for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste are chosen for, among other assets, their long-term stability and buffering capacity against destabilising events and processes. These proceedings present the outcomes of a geosphere stability workshop, held in November 2007, that focused on crystalline and other types of hard, fractured rocks. The workshop underscored the fact that many such rocks are intrinsically stable environments that evolve extremely slowly and provide good buffering against external events and processes. The proceedings show a good understanding of the processes and events that can affect crystalline rocks and, although there is less confidence in predicting exactly when and where such events will occur and the volume of rock that will be affected, the extent of the impacts on a geological repository can be confidently addressed using bounding approaches supported by geological information from similar sites around the world.
"NEA No. 6362."
Geological settings selected as potential host formations for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste are chosen for, among other assets, their long-term stability and buffering capacity against destabilising events and processes. These proceedings present the outcomes of a geosphere stability workshop, held in November 2007, that focused on crystalline and other types of hard, fractured rocks. The workshop underscored the fact that many such rocks are intrinsically stable environments that evolve extremely slowly and provide good buffering against external events and processes. The proceedings show a good understanding of the processes and events that can affect crystalline rocks and, although there is less confidence in predicting exactly when and where such events will occur and the volume of rock that will be affected, the extent of the impacts on a geological repository can be confidently addressed using bounding approaches supported by geological information from similar sites around the world.
Arguments to Support Confidence in the Stability of Crystalline Rocks as Potential Host Formations -- Examples of Key Processes Affecting the Geosphere for Crystalline Rock -- Conclusions -- Poster Session: Summary of Posters -- General Framework: Crystalline Rocks as Host Formations -- Scope and Objectives of the Workshop -- Response and Resilience of Crystalline Rock to Natural Perturbations and Geosphere Evolution (Buffering) -- Synthesis of the Workshop -- Poster Session -- Introduction.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Radioactive waste disposal