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Soler, J. M.*; Keklinen, P.*; Pulkkanen, V.-M.*; Moreno, L.*; Iraola, A.*; Trinchero, P.*; Hokr, M.*; ha, J.*; Havlov, V.*; Trpkoov, D.*; et al.
Nuclear Technology, 209(11), p.1765 - 1784, 2023/11
Soler, J. M.*; Meng, S.*; Moreno, L.*; Neretnieks, I.*; Liu, L.*; Keklinen, P.*; Hokr, M.*; ha, J.*; Vetenk, A.*; Reimitz, D.*; et al.
Geologica Acta, 20(7), 32 Pages, 2022/07
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:60.41(Geology)Task 9B of the SKB Task Force on Modelling of Groundwater Flow and Transport of Solutes in fractured rock focused on the modelling of experimental results from the LTDE-SD in situ tracer test performed at the sp Hard Rock Laboratory in Sweden. Ten different modelling teams provided results for this exercise, using different concepts and codes. Three main types of modelling approaches were used: (1) analytical solutions to the transport-retention equations, (2) continuum-porous-medium numerical models, and (3) microstructure-based models accounting for small-scale heterogeneity (i.e. mineral grains and microfracture distributions). The modelling by the different teams allowed the comparison of many different model concepts, especially in terms of potential zonations of rock properties (porosity, diffusion, sorption), such as the presence of a disturbed zone at the rock and fracture surface, the potential effects of micro- and cm-scale fractures.
Soler, J. M.*; Neretnieks, I.*; Moreno, L.*; Liu, L.*; Meng, S.*; Svensson, U.*; Iraola, A.*; Ebrahimi, K.*; Trinchero, P.*; Molinero, J.*; et al.
Nuclear Technology, 208(6), p.1059 - 1073, 2022/06
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:47.54(Nuclear Science & Technology)The SKB Task Force is an international forum on modelling of groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured rock. The WPDE experiments are matrix diffusion experiments in gneiss performed at the ONKALO underground facility in Finland. Synthetic groundwater containing several conservative and sorbing tracers was injected along a borehole interval. The objective of Task 9A was the predictive modelling of the tracer breakthrough curves from the WPDE experiments. Several teams, using different modelling approaches and codes, participated in this exercise. An important conclusion from this exercise is that the modelling results were very sensitive to the magnitude of dispersion in the borehole opening, which is related to the flow of water. Focusing on the tails of the breakthrough curves, which are more directly related to matrix diffusion and sorption, the results from the different teams were more comparable.
Soler, J. M.*; Keklinen, P.*; Pulkkanen, V.-M.*; Moreno, L.*; Iraola, A.*; Trinchero, P.*; Hokr, M.*; ha, J.*; Havlov, V.*; Trpkoov, D.*; et al.
SKB TR-21-09, 204 Pages, 2021/11
Tachi, Yukio; Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Gylling, B.*
Water Resources Research, 57(11), p.e2020WR029335_1 - e2020WR029335_20, 2021/11
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:19.4(Environmental Sciences)This paper focuses on the scaling approach for sorption and diffusion parameters from laboratory to in-situ conditions using the dataset of LTDE-SD experiment performed at the sp HRL. The near-surface heterogeneities at both fracture surface and rock matrix could be evaluated by conceptual model with high porosity and diffusivity, and sorption capacity, and their gradual change at the near-surface zones. The modelling results for non-sorbing Cl-36 and weak-sorbing Na-22 could validate the model concept and the parameter estimation of porosity and diffusivity, by considering the disturbed zone of 5 mm thickness with gradual parameter changes. The De values of these cationic and anionic tracers showed typical cation excess and anion exclusion effects. The modelling results for high sorbing tracers (Cs-137, Ra-226, Ni-63 and Np-237) with different sorption mechanism could confirm the validity of the scaling approaches of Kd values as a function of particle size and their relation to the near-surface disturbances.
Soler, J. M.*; Meng, S.*; Moreno, L.*; Neretnieks, I.*; Liu, L.*; Keklinen, P.*; Hokr, M.*; ha, J.*; Vetenk, A.*; Reimitz, D.*; et al.
SKB TR-20-17, 71 Pages, 2021/07
Task 9B of the SKB Task Force on Modelling of Groundwater Flow and Transport of Solutes in fractured rock focused on the modelling of experimental results from the LTDE-SD in situ tracer test performed at the sp Hard Rock Laboratory in Sweden. Ten different modelling teams provided results for this exercise, using different concepts and codes. Three main types of modelling approaches were used: (1) analytical solutions to the transport-retention equations, (2) continuum-porous-medium numerical models, and (3) microstructure-based models accounting for small-scale heterogeneity (i.e. mineral grains and microfracture distributions). The modelling by the different teams allowed the comparison of many different model concepts, especially in terms of potential zonations of rock properties (porosity, diffusion, sorption), such as the presence of a disturbed zone at the rock and fracture surface, the potential effects of micro- and cm-scale fractures.
Soler, J. M.*; Neretnieks, I.*; Moreno, L.*; Liu, L.*; Meng, S.*; Svensson, U.*; Trinchero, P.*; Iraola, A.*; Ebrahimi, H.*; Molinero, J.*; et al.
SKB R-17-10, 153 Pages, 2019/01
The SKB Task Force is an international forum on modeling of groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured rock. The WPDE experiments are matrix diffusion experiments in gneiss performed at the ONKALO underground facility in Finland. Synthetic groundwater containing several conservative and sorbing tracers was injected along a borehole interval. The objective of Task 9A was the predictive modeling of the tracer breakthrough curves from the WPDE experiments. Several teams, using different modelling approaches, participated in this exercise. An important conclusion from this exercise is that the modeling results were very sensitive to the magnitude of dispersion in the borehole opening, which is related to the flow of water. Focusing on the tails of the breakthrough curves, which are more directly related to matrix diffusion and sorption, the results from the different teams were more comparable. The modeling results have also been finally compared to the measured breakthroughs.
Tachi, Yukio; Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Akagi, Yosuke*; Sato, Hisao*; Martin, A. J.*
Water Resources Research, 54(11), p.9287 - 9305, 2018/11
Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:26.98(Environmental Sciences)Effects of fine-scale surface alterations on radionuclide migration in fractured crystalline rocks were investigated by a comprehensive approach coupling a series of laboratory tests, microscopic observations and modelling, using a single fractured granodiorite sample from the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland. Laboratory tests including through-diffusion, batch sorption and flow-through tests using five tracers indicated that tracer retention was consistently in the sequence of HDO, Se, Cs, Ni, Eu, and as well as showing the existence of a diffusion-resistance layer near the fracture surface, cation excess and anion exclusion effects for diffusion. Microscale heterogeneities in structural properties around the fracture were clarified quantitatively by coupling X-ray CT and EPMA. A three layer model including weathered vermiculite, foliated mica and undisturbed matrix layers, and their properties such as porosity, sorption and diffusion parameters, could provide a reasonable interpretation for breakthrough curves and concentration distributions near fracture surface of all tracers, measured in flow-through tests.
Sakanaka, Shogo*; Ago, Tomonori*; Enomoto, Atsushi*; Fukuda, Shigeki*; Furukawa, Kazuro*; Furuya, Takaaki*; Haga, Kaiichi*; Harada, Kentaro*; Hiramatsu, Shigenori*; Honda, Toru*; et al.
Proceedings of 11th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC '08) (CD-ROM), p.205 - 207, 2008/06
Future synchrotron light sources based on the energy-recovery linacs (ERLs) are expected to be capable of producing super-brilliant and/or ultra-short pulses of synchrotron radiation. Our Japanese collaboration team is making efforts for realizing an ERL-based hard X-ray source. We report recent progress in our R&D efforts.
Yamamoto, Masahiro; ; Nakamura, H.; ; *; ; ; *; *; *; et al.
Nihon Genshiryoku Gakkai-Shi, 20(4), p.258 - 272, 1978/04
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Sena, C.*; Molinero, J.*; Nagaoka, Toru*; Ajima, Shuji*; Ito, Tsuyoshi; Sasaki, Yoshito; Asano, Takahiro; Yoshikawa, Hideki
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Sasaki, Yoshito; Ito, Tsuyoshi; Asano, Takahiro; Yoshikawa, Hideki
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Yoshikawa, Hideki; Sasaki, Yoshito; Asano, Takahiro; Ito, Tsuyoshi; Yui, Mikazu
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Iwatsuki, Teruki; Sasaki, Yoshito; Ito, Tsuyoshi; Asano, Takahiro; Amano, Yuki; Yoshikawa, Hideki; Nakamura, Takamichi*; Nagaoka, Toru*
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Microbial activities and the reaction processes with groundwater and rock minerals up to 500 m below ground level were studied to infer the redox process and buffer capacity of rock materials for the articifitial disturbance such as facility construction at subsurface. Based on results of observation at in-situ and batch experiments, the geochemical modelling using PHREEQC-2 was carried out to develop the numerical simulation techniques on water-rock-microbe interaction system.
Yoshikawa, Hideki; Ito, Tsuyoshi; Sasaki, Yoshito; Asano, Takahiro*; Nagaoka, Toru*; Nakamura, Takamichi*
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This report shows that PHREEQC-2 code are used to analyzed a laboratory experimental for water-microbe interaction using a microbe collected from groundwater of Horonobe area, in order to evaluate influence by the microbe activity on the chemical composition of the water to contribute to the performance assessment of the disposal of the high-level radioactive waste. As a results, we understood that behavior such as the oxygen consumption could be estimated with the microbe influence.
Ito, Kei; Ohshima, Hiroyuki; Moribe, Takeshi; Koga, Kazuhiro*
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In accordance with the revision of "Regulatory guide for seismic design of nuclear power plants", the seismic safety assessment of the prototype fast breeder reactor "Monju" was carried out based on the revised guide. In this report, the sloshing in the fuel pool is simulated by the MPS method and the overflow from the pool is evaluated.
Ito, Tsuyoshi; Sasaki, Yoshito; Amano, Yuki; Iwatsuki, Teruki; Yoshikawa, Hideki
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Yoshikawa, Hideki; Sasaki, Yoshito; Ito, Tsuyoshi; Amano, Yuki; Iwatsuki, Teruki
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Nagaoka, Toru*; Nakamura, Takamichi*; Sasaki, Yoshito; Asano, Takahiro*; Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Amano, Yuki; Iwatsuki, Teruki; Yoshikawa, Hideki
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Laboratory jar experiment was conducted with deep subsurface sedimentary rock and groundwater, in order to assess the response of the geochemical and microbial communities toward redox processes. The redox process was induced by exposure to air and discontinuation to sediment suspension, which simulated the process occurring during operation of nuclear waste repositories. As a results, after discontinuation of air exposure with lactate amendment, redox potentials decreased from ca. +100 mV to -600 m V (vs. Ag/AgCl), and some sequential terminal electron-accepting process (TEAPs) was observed with the reactions of aerobic respiration, iron reduction and hygrogen fermentation. The related species of the microbes along with TEAPs, e.g., Pseudomonas sp. for aerobic respiration and Shewanella sp. for iron reduction, was also detected. These results indicated that the microbial activities would affect the geochemical changes in nuclear repositories.
Yoshikawa, Hideki; Amano, Yuki; Sasaki, Yoshito; Ito, Tsuyoshi*; Ise, Kotaro; Iwatsuki, Teruki
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An insite experiment was conducted to understand for microbial effect on backfill of 140m underground tunnel, the contribution of the microbial reaction in backfill material on redox change of the tunnel environment was suggested.