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- Title
Key natural analogue input required to build a safety case for direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel in Japan.
- Authors
McKinley, Ian; Kawamura, Hideki; Hardie, Susie; Klein, Elizaveta; Beattie, Tara
- Abstract
Natural analogues have been previously used to support the safety case for direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel, but the focus of such work was very dependent on the key barriers of specific national disposal concepts. Investigations of the feasibility of such disposal in Japan are at an early stage but, nevertheless, it is clear that building a robust safety case will be very challenging and would benefit from focused support from natural analogue studies-both in terms of developing/testing required models and, as importantly, presenting safety arguments to a wide range of stakeholders. This paper identifies key analogues that support both longevity and spread of failure times of massive steel overpacks, the effectiveness of buffering of radiolytic oxidants and the chemical and physical mechanisms retarding release of radionuclides from the engineered barriers. It is concluded that, for countries like Japan where performance needs to be assessed as realistically as possible, natural analogues can complement the existing laboratory and theoretical knowledge base and contribute towards development of a robust safety case.
- Subjects
NUCLEAR fuels; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVE waste disposal research; SAFETY research; RADIOLYSIS
- Publication
Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 2015, Vol 108, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
1661-8726
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00015-015-0186-z