scholarly journals Brine and Gas Flow Patterns Between Excavated Areas and Disturbed Rock Zone in the 1996 Performance Assessment for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for a Single Drilling Intrusion that Penetrates Repository and Castile Brine Reservoir

10.2172/14814 ◽  
1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHLEEN M. ECONOMY ◽  
JON CRAIG HELTON ◽  
PALMER VAUGHN
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Pilot Plant ◽  
Gas Flow ◽  
Flow Patterns ◽  
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Influence of Carbonate on Uranium Solubility in the WIPP

2012 ◽  
Vol 1444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Francois Lucchini ◽  
Sally Ballard ◽  
Hnin Khaing
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Pilot Plant ◽  
Solubility Limit ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ◽  
Long Term Experiments ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Carbonate Complexation ◽  
Borate Complexation

ABSTRACTIn the performance assessment (PA) for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the solubility of uranium (VI) was conservatively set at 10-3 M for all expected WIPP conditions, including the potential and likely effects of carbonate complexation [1]. Under WIPP-relevant conditions, long-term experiments were performed to establish the uranium (VI) solubility limits in WIPP-simulated brine over a broad range of pCH+ values [7.5-12.5] and to evaluate the contribution of carbonate complexation and hydrolysis to uranium (VI) speciation. Data obtained in carbonate-free ERDA-6 brine, a simulated WIPP brine, were reported earlier [2]. In the absence of carbonate, uranium solubility approached 10-7 M at the expected pCH+ in the WIPP (~ 9.5). In the presence of a significant amount of carbonate (millimole levels), recent experimental results showed that uranium (VI) concentrations will not exceed 10-4M. This measured solubility limit is an order of magnitude lower than the uranium solubility value currently used in the WIPP PA [3]. A small effect of borate complexation was found in the pCH+ range [7.5-10]. At pCH+ ≥ 10, hydrolysis overwhelmed carbonate effects, and no amphoteric effect was observed.

scholarly journals Regulatory basis for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant performance assessment

2000 ◽  
Vol 69 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 109-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.A Howard ◽  
M.B Crawford ◽  
D.A Galson ◽  
M.G Marietta
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Pilot Plant ◽  
Plant Performance ◽  
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
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