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The Planning of future research program of underground laboratories in overseas

*; Tanai, Kenji; *

JNC TN8420 2001-007, 86 Pages, 2002/02

JNC-TN8420-2001-007.pdf:6.04MB

The objectives of this study is to identify the research issues, which are to be conducted in the future underground research laboratory, about operation and logistics systems for the planning of future research and development program. The research programs and experiments,etc. were investigated for the geological disposal projects in overseas sedimentary rocks and coastal geological environments aiming to reflect in the future underground research facility plan in Japan. In the investigation, information on the engineered-barrier performance, design and construction of underground facilities, tunnel support, transportation and emplacement, and backfilling technology, etc. were collected. Based on these informations, the purpose, the content, and the result of each investigations and tests were arranged. The strategy and the aim in the entire underground research facility, and the flow of investigations and tests, etc. were also arranged from the purpose, the relations and the sequence of each investigation and experiment, and the usage of results, etc.

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Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Experiment at Kamaishi Mine Technical Note 16-99-03, Analyses of Task 2C, DECOVALEXII

Chijimatsu, Masakazu*; Fujita, Tomoo; Kobayashi, Akira*; Onishi, Yuzo*

JNC TN8400 99-031, 61 Pages, 1999/06

JNC-TN8400-99-031.pdf:3.36MB

It is an important part of the near field performance assessment of nuclear waste disposal to evaluate couples thermo-hydro-mechanical (T-H-M) phenomena, e.g., thermal effects on groundwater flow through rock matrix and water seepage into the buffer material, the generation of swelling pressure of the buffer material, and thermal stresses potentially affecting porosity and fracture apertures of the rock. An in-situ T-H-M experiment naned 'Engineered Barrier Experiment' has been oonducted at the Kamaishi Mine, of which host rock is granodiorite, in order to establish conceptual models of the coupled T-H-M processes and to build confidence in mathematical models and computer codes. The coupled T-H-M experiment is one of tasks in DECOVALEX (DEvelopment of COupled models and their VALidation against EXperiments) project which is an international co-operative project and it is defined as Task 2. The Task 2 for the DECOVALEX project are divided into three subtasks (A-C) in accordance with the programme and availability of data, called subtasks. This note describes the results of subtask C. Subtask C is a coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical analysis in the near field.

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