Stability and buffering capacity of the geosphere for long-term isolation of radioactive waste
Subtitle: application to crystalline rock : workshop proceedings, Manchester, United Kingdom, 13-15 November 2007
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
Subjects: Radioactive waste disposal in the ground; Congresses; Radioactive waste sites; Crystalline Rocks
Notes: "NEA No. 6362."

Includes bibliographical references.
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).