Performance of large diameter storage and sealing structures in a deep exothermic waste repository

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Název: Performance of large diameter storage and sealing structures in a deep exothermic waste repository
Autoři: Alonso, Matías, Vaunat, Jean, Olivella Pastallé, Sebastià, Gens Solé, Antonio, Vu, Minh-Ngoc
Zdroj: UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Informace o vydavateli: 2022.
Rok vydání: 2022
Témata: Residus radioactius -- Emmagatzematge, Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Política i gestió ambiental::Gestió de residus, Argillaceous rocks, Radioactive waste disposal in the ground, THM modeling, Bentonite, Sealing system, Thermo-hydro-mechanical modeling, Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Política i gestió ambiental::Gestió de residus [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC], Nuclear waste disposal
Popis: The paper presents the work carried out to assess and simulate numerically the phenomenology behind the response of large diameter intermediate-level long-lived nuclear waste (ILW-LL) storage galleries and the corresponding sealing structures. Large scale models were created for this purpose, using advanced constitutive models, accounting for complex coupled phenomena, and representing geometric details at decimeter scale. These challenging simulations provided qualitative and quantitative results on key questions related to the design of this kind of structures, such as the extension of the damaged zone around the gallery, the impact of the thermal load on the water pressure variation around the excavation and on the surrounding geological layers, the duration of the natural hydration phase and the swelling pressure development of the sealing core, and the seals system global stability.
Druh dokumentu: Conference object
Popis souboru: application/pdf
Jazyk: English
Přístupová URL adresa: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/371372
https://hdl.handle.net/2117/371372
Přístupové číslo: edsair.dedup.wf.002..6437f3b75ec78f4af7ad1d2c481cb55c
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:The paper presents the work carried out to assess and simulate numerically the phenomenology behind the response of large diameter intermediate-level long-lived nuclear waste (ILW-LL) storage galleries and the corresponding sealing structures. Large scale models were created for this purpose, using advanced constitutive models, accounting for complex coupled phenomena, and representing geometric details at decimeter scale. These challenging simulations provided qualitative and quantitative results on key questions related to the design of this kind of structures, such as the extension of the damaged zone around the gallery, the impact of the thermal load on the water pressure variation around the excavation and on the surrounding geological layers, the duration of the natural hydration phase and the swelling pressure development of the sealing core, and the seals system global stability.