scholarly journals Development of User-friendly Modeling Interface for Process-based Total System Performance Assessment Framework (APro) for Geological Disposal System of High-level Radioactive Waste

Author(s):  
Jung-Woo Kim ◽  
Jaewon Lee ◽  
Dong-Keun Cho
Author(s):  
Akira Kitamura ◽  
Reisuke Doi ◽  
Yasushi Yoshida

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) established the thermodynamic database (JAEA-TDB) for performance assessment of geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and TRU waste. Twenty-five elements which were important for the performance assessment of geological disposal were selected for the database. JAEA-TDB enhanced reliability of evaluation and estimation of their solubility through selecting the latest and the most reliable thermodynamic data at present. We evaluated and estimated solubility of the 25 elements in the simulated porewaters established in the “Second Progress Report for Safety Assessment of Geological Disposal of HLW in Japan” using the JAEA-TDB and compared with those using the previous thermodynamic database (JNC-TDB). It was found that most of the evaluated and estimated solubility values were not changed drastically, but the solubility and speciation of dominant aqueous species for some elements using the JAEA-TDB were different from those using the JNC-TDB. We discussed about how to provide reliable solubility values for the performance assessment.


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