| Abstract: | The status of mathematical simulation techniques, as they apply to radioactive waste burial sites, is briefly reviewed, and hydrogeologic and hydrochemical data needs are listed in order of increasing difficulty and cost of acquisition. Predictive modeling, monitoring, and management of radionuclides dissolved and transported by ground water can best be done for sites in relatively simple hydrogeologic settings; namely, in unfaulted relatively flat-lying strata of intermediate permeability such as silt, siltstone and silty sandstone. In contrast, dense fractured or soluble media, and poorly permeable porous media (aquitards) are not suitable for use as burial sites, first because of media heterogeneity and difficulties of sampling, and consequently of predictive modeling, and second, because in humid zones burial trenches in aquitards may overflow. A buffer zone several thousands of feet to perhaps several miles around existing or proposed sites is a mandatory consequence of the site selection criteria. As a specific example, the Maxey Flats, Kentucky low-level waste disposal site is examined. (Woodard-USGS) |
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| Citation Author: | Papadopulos, Stavros Stefanu; Winograd, Isaac Judah |
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| Citation Series Number: | 74-344 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Storage of low-level radioactive wastes in the ground; hydrogeologic and hydrochemical factors; 1974; OFR; 74-344; Papadopulos, Stavros Stefanu; Winograd, Isaac Judah |
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| Text: | Storage of low-level radioactive wastes in the ground; hydrogeologic and hydrochemical factors; 1974; OFR; 74-344; Papadopulos, Stavros Stefanu; Winograd, Isaac Judah |
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| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey], |
