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笹本 広; Arthur, R. C.*
Environmental Earth Sciences, 85(13), p.300_1 - 300_16, 2026/07
被引用回数：0Fractured rocks in the Excavation Damage Zone (EDZ) and intact host rocks of a geologic repository for radioactive waste could be altered by reactions with hyperalkaline solutions leached from cementitious materials in the repository. Alteration could cause individual fractures to open (i.e., propagate) or close (i.e., seal) under the control of coupled fluid-flow, solute-transport, and water-rock interaction processes. A discrete-fracture, reactive-transport model was used in the present study to evaluate fracture propagation/sealing behavior caused by reactions involving hyperalkaline solutions with minerals in a representative repository host rock. Differences in assumptions underpinning the model were found to strongly affect system behavior. Model results indicated the rock matrix adjacent to a fracture would seal relatively quickly, for example, if a constant-concentration condition was assumed along the fracture-matrix boundary. Conversely, the model predicted that the matrix would not seal completely near the fracture surface if a constant-concentration boundary was assumed at the inlet rather than along the fracture-matrix interface. Fracture flow would slow by precipitation of secondary minerals in this latter case, however, causing the fracture porosity and permeability to decrease. Sensitivity analyses based on a critical evaluation of initial and boundary conditions in discrete-fracture models can provide important insights concerning phenomena controlling fracture propagation/sealing behavior and related impacts on fluid flow and radionuclide transport.
Bateman, K.*; 村山 翔太*; 花町 優次*; Wilson, J.*; 瀬田 孝将*; 天野 由記; 久保田 満*; 大内 祐司*; 舘 幸男
Minerals (Internet), 12(7), p.883_1 - 883_20, 2022/07
被引用回数：3 パーセンタイル：20.03(Geochemistry & Geophysics)The construction of a repository for geological disposal of radioactive waste will include the use of cement-based materials. Following closure, groundwater will saturate the repository and the extensive use of cement will result in the development of a highly alkaline porewater, pH 
12.5; this fluid will migrate into and react with the host rock. The chemistry of the fluid will evolve over time, initially high [Na] and [K], evolving to a Ca-rich fluid, and finally returning to the groundwater composition. This evolving chemistry will affect the long-term performance of the repository, altering the physical and chemical properties, including radionuclide behaviour. Understanding these changes forms the basis for predicting the long-term evolution of the repository. This study focused on the determination of the nature and extent of the chemical reaction, as well as the formation and persistence of secondary mineral phases within a granite, comparing data from sequential flow experiments with the results of reactive transport modelling. The reaction of the granite with the cement leachates resulted in small changes in pH and the precipitation of calcium aluminum silicate hydrate (C-(A-)S-H) phases of varying compositions, of greatest abundance with the Ca-rich fluid. As the system evolved, secondary C-(A-)S-H phases re-dissolved, partly replaced by zeolites. This general sequence was successfully simulated using reactive transport modelling.
Bateman, K.; 村山 翔太*; 花町 優次*; Wilson, J.*; 瀬田 孝将*; 天野 由記; 久保田 満*; 大内 祐司*; 舘 幸男
Minerals (Internet), 11(9), p.1026_1 - 1026_23, 2021/09
被引用回数：3 パーセンタイル：4.39(Geochemistry & Geophysics)The construction of a repository for geological disposal of radioactive waste will include the use of cement-based materials. Following closure, groundwater will saturate the repository and the extensive use of cement will result in the development of a highly alkaline porewater, pH 12.5. This fluid will migrate into and react with the host rock. The chemistry of the fluid will evolve over time, initially high [Na] and [K], evolving to a Ca-rich fluid and finally returning to the groundwater composition. This evolving chemistry will affect the long-term performance of the repository altering the physical and chemical properties, including radionuclide behaviour. Understanding these changes forms the basis for predicting the long-term evolution of the repository. This study focused on the determination of the nature and extent of the chemical reaction; the formation and persistence of secondary mineral phases within an argillaceous mudstone, comparing both data from sequential flow experiments with the results of reactive transport modeling. The reaction of the mudstone with the cement leachates resulted in small changes in pH but the precipitation of calcium aluminium silicate hydrate (C-A-S-H) phases of varying compositions. With the change to the groundwater secondary C-(A-)S-H phases re-dissolved being replaced by secondary carbonates. This general sequence was successfully simulated by the reactive transport model simulations.
