Investigation of cement pore structure evolution in underground repository conditions

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It is proposed that radioactive waste generated in the Netherlands be buried underground in Boom clay formations. As this will need to be stored for hundreds of thousands of years it is important that the safety functions of the proposed engineered barriers are well understood. The Dutch repository concept utilises several types of concrete with three main functions: containment of waste (as part of the waste canisters), intermediate buffer (as a backfill material) and mechanical support (as part of gallery lining). Concrete contains many pores which can degrade with long term exposure to Boom clay pore water, which will change the permeability and retention of radionuclides in concrete. We are proposing a SANS experiment to measure the pore distribution in fresh samples and samples which have been exposed to major components of the pore water and artificially aged.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98000286
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98000286
Provenance
Creator Dr Roger Pynn; Dr Christian Franz; Dr Adam Washington; Dr Steven Parnell; Dr Zhou Zhou; Dr Denis Bykov; Mr Jiazhou Shen; Dr Fankang Li; Dr Ad van Well; Dr Jeroen Plomp; Mr Michel Thijs; Mr Niels Geerits
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-15T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-17T05:19:23Z