Biosphere Implications of Deep Disposal of Nuclear Waste: The Upwards Migration of Radionuclides in Vegetated Soils (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781860947438)

The safety assessment of a deep repository for nuclear waste poses challenging scientific and technical questions. The risks from leakage of radionuclides from the repository, including transfers to the biosphere and the food chain must be assessed. This involves complex and poorly understood interactions between groundwater, soils, plants and the atmosphere. A unique, multidisciplinary experimental and modeling program at Imperial College London has been funded by UK NIREX to develop the science and to produce modeling tools to interpret and generalize the experimental data for safety assessment. This monograph brings together for the first time the accumulated results and experience from almost two decades of research. The results have important implications for the safety assessment of nuclear waste worldwide and provide new insights into the geochemical and biological controls on the upwards migration of radiochemicals in the near-surface environment.

Author: Howard S. Wheater, J. Nigel B. Bell, Adrian P. Butler
ISBN-10: 1860947433
ISBN-13: 9781860947438
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 420
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.77lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.61w x 0.92d