Radionuclide transport in brackish water through chalk fractures

Radionuclide Gas Transport through Nuclear Explosion-Generated Fracture Networks.

Underground nuclear weapon testing produces radionuclide gases which may seep to the surface. Barometric pumping of gas through explosion-fractured rock is investigated using a new sequentially-coupled hydrodynamic rock damage/gas transport model. Fracture networks are produced for two rock types (granite and tuff) and three depths of burial. The fracture networks are integrated into a flow and...

Radionuclide Transport Through Engineered Barrier System Alteration Products

Monte Carlo simulation of radionuclide transport through fractured media

The presence of fractures within the host matrix may strongly affect the radionuclide mobility in the far-field of the current proposed solutions for underground radioactive waste repositories. In this paper a Monte Carlo simulation approach, based on analogies with neutron transport, has been developed for describing radionuclide transport in fractured media. The Monte Carlo approach here adop...

Water transport through the kidney

In occupational medicine, measurements of levels within the urine of toxic chemicals, or their metabolites, are used to indicate the level of exposure of workers to chemicals. In a worker’s body the kidney is the main organ taking care of the excretion of unwanted/toxic chemicals and the recovery of useful ones, via three mechanisms: filtration, reabsorption and secretion. We model these proces...

The significance of colloids in the transport of pesticides through Chalk.

Agrochemical contamination in groundwater poses a significant long term threat to water quality and is of concern for legislators, water utilities and consumers alike. In the dual porosity, dual permeability aquifers such as the Chalk aquifer, movement of pesticides and their metabolites through the unsaturated zone to groundwater is generally considered to be through one of two pathways; a rap...