Laboratory Tests on the Migration Behaviour of Selected Fission Products in Aquifer Materials from a Potential Disposal

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LABORATORY TESTS ON THE MIGRATION BEHAVIOUR OF SELECTED FISSION PRODUCTS IN AQUIFER MATERIALS FROM A POTENTIAL DISPOSAL SITE IN NORTHERN GERMANY

H. BEHRENS, D. KLOTZ, H. LANG, H. MOSER fOr Radiohydrometrie der Gesellschaft far Strahlen- und UmweltforInstitut schung mbH M~nchen, D-8042 Neuherberg, Fed. Rep. Germany G. BARKE, H. BRUHL, S. GEHLER AND U. MUHLENWEG far Angewandte Geologie, Freie Universitdt Berlin, D-1000 Berlin 33, Institut Fed. Rep. Germany

ABSTRACT

The migration behaviour with respect to retardation by sorption of radioactive Ce, Cs, I, Nb, Ru, Sm, Sr, Tc and Zr in fluviatile and aeolian sand aquifers has been examined in laboratory tests. In these tests it was attempted to simulate the natural conditions of the field. The tests were The results of both types of performed as batch and column experiments. limits and show procedures agree within the error experimental -

small sorption for I- and TcO4 2 medium sorption for Sr + 3 3 high sorption for Cs +, Ce +, Sm +,

The investigations same site.

4

4

Zr

Ru +,

5

+ and Nb + from the

will be continued with other geologic materials

INTRODUCTION Within the frame work of a safety investigation program with regard to the final

disposal

of

radioactive

waste,

work

being

is

done

simulate

to

migration behaviour of selected fission products by a mathematical model. was necessary to perform

contribution

it

distribution

coefficients

for the radionuclides.

factors

sampled in

the surroundings

The

of a salt dome,

which was chosen as a possible

the North West German Basin,

near Gorleben in

for the determination of

experiments

and retardation

under investigation was

material

the As a

repository for radioactive waste in the Federal Republic of Germany.

MATERIALS Clayey sand,

sandy and

were sampled from cores,

amounts of several kilograms. same

origin

surface.

The

were

tests.

sampled

latter three

column experiments

as well

The grainsize

(1.54 U