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Nara, Yoshitaka*; Kashiwaya, Koki*; Oketani, Kazuki*; Fujii, Hirokazu*; Zhao, Y.*; Kato, Masaji*; Aoyagi, Kazuhei; Ozaki, Yusuke; Matsui, Hiroya; Kono, Masanori*
Zairyo, 73(3), p.220 - 225, 2024/03
The fractures in the rock are the main pass of groundwater flow and solute transport. The filling of fine-grained particle, such as clay minerals, was confirmed to decrease the permeability of rock by laboratory experiment. This research aimed to verify the occurrence of the phenomena in the field. The water containing the clay minerals was injected into the rock at the 200m stage of the Mizunami Underground research laboratory. The hydraulic conductivity decreased two order before and after the injection. This result suggested that the decrease of hydraulic conductivity by the filling of fine-grained particle in the fractures occurred in the real field.
Oketani, Kazuki*; Nara, Yoshitaka*; Matsui, Hiroya; Fujii, Hirokazu*
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For the geological disposal of radioactive wastes, it is important to understand the long-term migration of radionuclides. The network of fractures and pores in a rock mass, which have a role as the pathway of the fluid flow of materials, may change due to sealing of a material in the long term. We measured changes in hydraulic conductivity of crystalline rock mass using water mixed with clays sampled from a fault in the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory, Japan Atomic Energy Agency. This result indicates that permeability of in-situ rock mass is possible to decrease by fracture filling with a clay material in a fault.
