Stability and buffering capacity of the geosphere for long-term isolation of radioactive waste
Subtitle: applications to crystalline rock : workshop proceedings, Manchester, United Kingdom, 13-15 November 2007.
Contributors: OECD Nuclear Energy Agency.
Series: Radioactive waste management; Radioactive waste management (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)
Publisher: Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9789264060562; 9789264060579
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Congresses; Radioactive waste disposal -- Congresses; Rocks, Crystalline -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: 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 destabilizing 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 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.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "NEA  No. 6362."

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: General framework : crystalline rocks as host formations; title: Examples of key processes affecting the geosphere for crystalline rock; title: Arguments to support confidence in the stability of crystalline rocks as potential host formations; title: Response and resilience of crystalline rock to natural perturbations and geosphere evolution (buffering); title: Poster session.