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Abe, Takeyasu; Iida, Yoshihisa
Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology, 20(3), p.236 - 253, 2022/03
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：11.94(Construction & Building Technology)This paper is a state-of-the-art report on the performance assessment of cementitious and related materials as components of engineered barrier systems for radioactive waste management. In this paper, (1) the concept of safety functions is reviewed as the engineering background of discussion, (2) an overview of the postclosure performance assessment for Belgian low- and intermediate-level short-lived radioactive waste disposal is provided, and (3) a modeling methodology for engineered barrier systems is analyzed using the concept of "mandala for durability mechanics". According to these works, authors present technical suggestions for technical stakeholders of Japanese low-level radioactive waste disposal.
Suzuki, Satoru; Sato, Haruo
JNC TN8410 2001-028, 36 Pages, 2002/03
JNC-TN8410-2001-028.pdf:1.81MB
For a safety assessment of the high-level radioactive waste disposal, effective diffusion coefficients (D
) of radionuclides in bentonite have been accumulated by the through-diffusion method. It has been found recently that experimental results on Ds for several cations (cesium and strontium) by the fairly standard experimental method in JNC differ from those previously reported in several papers. Discrepancy can be considered to be due to different design of diffusion cell and system. In order to confirm influences of the experimental design on cation diffusivities in bentonite, a flow-through diffusion system was developed and several diffusion experiments were conducted.As a result, magnitude of D and its salinity dependence were relatively different between the standard and flow-through diffusion system. Since the latter system can control boundary conditions of the experiment more strictly than the standard method, we can conclude that the flow-through diffusion system provide correct results. In addition, we apply this flow-through diffusion system to a modification of controlling boundary condition during the experiment and to the diffusion experiment under controlled temperature.
Suzuki, Satoru; ; *
JNC TN8400 2000-020, 25 Pages, 2000/04
JNC-TN8400-2000-020.pdf:0.94MB
Nature of porewater in bentonite plays important roles on the mass transport in the compacted bentonite used as a physical and chemical buffer material of the multi-barrier system in the high level radioactive waste manegement Higher activation energies of diffusion in the compacted bentonite than those in the aqueous solution is due probably to change in molecular structure of water in the porewater. The Raman spectroscopy was applied to studying the structure of porewater in bentonite at room temperature. Bentonite (Kunipia F, 98-99wt% of Na-smectite) was mixed with ion-exchanged water by water content of 75, 80, 90, 95 and 98wt% of water or with 0.5M NaCl aqueous solution by 75 and 80wt% of NaCl solution. Intensity maxima of the spectra of ion exchanged water, NaCl solution and their porewater were observed near 3200 to 3250, 3400, 3630cm
. These bands can be attributed to water molecules forming stronger hydrogen bond in this manner. Ratio of intensity, 3250cm/3400cm, increased from 0.97 to 1.1 with a decrease in water content of 100wt% (water) to 75wt%. On the other hand, intensity ratio of 3400cm/3250cm of NaCl aqueous solution, 80wt%and 75wt% were 0.92, 1.2 and 1.3, respectively. Since the Raman scattering near 3250cm was attributed to water molecule forming the strongest hydrogen bonding in the three bands, those changes in intensity ratio suggests an increase in number of water molecule forming strong hydrogen bond in porewater of the bentonite. The constrained porewater possibly results in the high activation energy of diffusion in the compacted bentonite.
Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan*
JNC TY1400 2000-001, 464 Pages, 2000/03
JNC-TY1400-2000-001.pdf:16.87MB
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