Assessment of Contaminated Brine Fate and Transport in MB139 at WIPP

doi:10.2172/1326034

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DOI	10.2172/1326034
报告编号	SAND2014--16153
来源ID	OSTI ID: 1326034
	Assessment of Contaminated Brine Fate and Transport in MB139 at WIPP
	Kuhlman, Kristopher L.; Malama, Bwalya
	2014-07-01
出版年	2014
页数	41
语种	英语
国家	美国
领域	地球科学
英文摘要	Following the radionuclide release event of February 14, 2014 at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), actinide contamination has been found on the walls and floor in Panel 7 as a result of a release in Room 7 of Panel 7. It has been proposed to decontaminate Panel 7 at the WIPP by washing contaminated surfaces in the underground with fresh water. A cost-effective cleanup of this contamination would allow for a timely return to waste disposal operations at WIPP. It is expected that the fresh water used to decontaminate Panel 7 will flow as contaminated brine down into the porosity of the materials under the floor â the run-of-mine (ROM) salt above Marker Bed 139 (MB139) and MB139 itself â where its fate will be controlled by the hydraulic and transport properties of MB139. Due to the structural dip of MB139, it is unlikely that this brine would migrate northward towards the Waste-Handling Shaft sump. A few strategically placed shallow small-diameter observation boreholes straddling MB139 would allow for monitoring the flow and fate of this brine after decontamination. Additionally, given that flow through the compacted ROM salt floor and in MB139 would occur under unsaturated (or two-phase) conditions, there is a need to measure the unsaturated flow properties of crushed WIPP salt and salt from the disturbed rock zone (DRZ).
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来源平台	US Department of Energy (DOE)
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/6438
专题	地球科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kuhlman, Kristopher L.,Malama, Bwalya. Assessment of Contaminated Brine Fate and Transport in MB139 at WIPP,2014.