Hydrologic issues associated with nuclear waste repositories

CF Tsang, I Neretnieks, Y Tsang - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Significant progress in hydrology, especially in subsurface flow and solute transport, has
been made over the last 35 years because of sustained interest in underground nuclear …

A comprehensive review of proppant embedment in shale reservoirs: Experimentation, modeling and future prospects

A Katende, L O'Connell, A Rich, J Rutqvist… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a comprehensive review on the application of proppants to maintain
fracture permeability over the lifetime of a well based on published observations from …

[HTML][HTML] Non-isothermal consolidation: A systematic evaluation of two implementations based on multiphase and richards equations

M Pitz, S Kaiser, N Grunwald, V Kumar… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the governing equations of non-isothermal two-phase flow in unsaturated,
deformable porous media are presented based on different representations of the gaseous …

Review of multi-scale and multi-physical simulation technologies for shale and tight gas reservoirs

L Wang, S Wang, R Zhang, C Wang, Y Xiong… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on the simulation techniques being
developed in recent years for describing unique flow behaviors in shale and tight gas …

Thermal management associated with geologic disposal of large spent nuclear fuel canisters in tunnels with thermally engineered backfill

J Rutqvist - Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical (THM) numerical modeling is conducted to study
thermal management associated with geologic disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in large …

On the impact of temperatures up to 200 C in clay repositories with bentonite engineer barrier systems: A study with coupled thermal, hydrological, chemical, and …

L Zheng, J Rutqvist, JT Birkholzer, HH Liu - Engineering Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the most important design variables for a geological nuclear waste repository is the
temperature limit up to which the engineered barrier system (EBS) and the natural geologic …

Energy geotechnics: Advances in subsurface energy recovery, storage, exchange, and waste management

JS McCartney, M Sánchez, I Tomac - Computers and Geotechnics, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy geotechnics involves the use of geotechnical principles to understand and engineer
the coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes encountered in collecting …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of time-dependent deformation of shale on the integrity of a geological nuclear waste repository

T Sasaki, J Rutqvist - International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining …, 2022 - Elsevier
Safety assessment of geological nuclear waste repositories is essential for the permanent
disposal of spent nuclear fuels and high-level radioactive waste. The long-term integrity of …

An overview of TOUGH-based geomechanics models

J Rutqvist - Computers & Geosciences, 2017 - Elsevier
After the initial development of the first TOUGH-based geomechanics model 15 years ago
based on linking TOUGH2 multiphase flow simulator to the FLAC3D geomechanics …

Coupled THMC models for bentonite in an argillite repository for nuclear waste: Illitization and its effect on swelling stress under high temperature

L Zheng, J Rutqvist, H Xu, JT Birkholzer - Engineering geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Subsurface manipulations such as those expected from the disposal of heat-emanating
radioactive waste in deep repositories can induce strongly coupled Thermal (T) …