Waste Isolation

Senger, R.K., Lanyon, B., Marschall, P., Vomvoris, Fujiwara, A., 2006, TOUGH2/ITOUGH2 Analysis of the Gas Migration Test (GMT) at the Grimsel Test Site (Switzerland). TOUGH2 Symposium 2006, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.

Calder, N., Avis, J., Senger, R., and Leung, H., 2006, Modifying TOUGH2 to support modeling of gastransport through saturated compacted bentonite as part of the Large-Scale Gas Injection Test (LASGIT) in Sweden. TOUGH2 Symposium 2006, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.

Senger, R.K., Fujiwara, A., Shimura, T. Lanyon, B., Marschall, P., Vomvoris, S., Yamamoto, S., Ando, K., 2006, Modeling approaches for the design and analysis of the Gas Migration Test (GMT) at the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland. Proceedings of  the International Conference on High Level Radioactive Waste Management, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL and American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, New York.

Frieg, B., Enachescu, C., Marschall, P., Senger, R., Distinguin, M., Delay, J.,2005, Gas threshold pressure tests in argillaceous rock Results from the Bure and Benkensites, Proceedings of International Symposium on: Using natural and engineered-based clay barriers for the containment of radioactive waste, March 14 18, 2005, Tours, France.

Duguid, J., Senger, R.K.,and J. Leem, 2002, Performance assessment of a post-closure pyrophoric event, American Nuclear Society Annual Metting, San Diego.

Senger, R.K., Duguid, J., and H. Loo, 2001.Performance assessment of DOE spent nuclear fuel for site recommendation, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on High Level Radioactive Waste Management, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL and American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, New York.

Senger, R. K., Marschall,P., and Bhler, C., 1998, Gas tracer transport in two-phase flow field: Numerical simulations and field experiments at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS), Switzerland: Proceedings TOUGH2 Workshop 98, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Croise, J., Marschall, P., and  R.K. Senger, 1998, Gas-water flow in a shear zone of granitic formation: Interpretation of  Field Experiments, in Proceedings of  DisTec98: Disposal Technologies and Concepts 1998, International Conference on Radioactive Waste Disposal, September 9-11, 1998, Hamburg, Germany.

Gribi, P., Niemeyer, M., Senger, R., andZuidema, P., 1998.  Preliminary investigation of radionuclide release under two-phase conditions from a proposed L/ILW repository in Switzerland: Proceedings TOUGH2 Workshop 98, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.

Fryar, D.G., J.A. Beach, V.A.Kelley, and M.K.Knowles, 1997. Long-Term Brine Migration Through an Engineered Shaft Seal System, Published in the Proceedings of the ASCE Fourth Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, 1997.

Senger, R. K., Marschall,P., and Lavanchy, J-M., 1997, Gas threshold pressure tests in deep boreholes for determining two-phase flow properties of the host rock at the proposed L/ILW repository, Switzerland: Proceedings on Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, Materials Research Society, Davos, 1997.

Kelley, V.A and M.K. Knowles, 1996. Fluid Flow Analysis of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Shaft Seal System. Published in AGU 1997 Fall Meeting Abstracts, Presented in San Francisco, December 16-19, 1996.

Freeze, G., G. Ruskauff, and T. Christian-Frear. 1996. Considerations in modeling ground water inflow to underground repositories. Presented at TOPSEAL 96, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dale, T.F. and L.D.Hurtado, 1996. WIPP air-intake shaft disturbed-rock zone study. In Proceedings of The 4th Conference on the Mechanical Behavior of Salt, cole Polytechnique,1718 June, Montral, Qubec, Canada.

C.E.Tilburg, T.L. Jones, and L.C. Meigs. 1996. Integration of single-well and convergent-flow tracer tests to determine subsurface parameters in the Culebra Dolomite at theWaste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Site. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting.

RamaRao, Banda S., A. Marsh Lavenue, Ghislain de Marsily, and Melvin G. Marietta, 1995. Pilot-point methodology for automated calibration of an ensemble of conditionally simulated transmissivity fields 1. Theory and computational experiments, Water Resources Research, 31(3); 475-493.

Lavenue, A. Marsh, Banda S. RamaRao, Ghislain de Marsily, and Melvin G. Marietta, 1995. Pilot-pointmethodology for automated calibration of an ensemble of conditionally simulated transmissivity fields 2. Application, Water Resources Research, 31(3); 495-516.

Senger, R. K., P. Zuidema, M. Hugi, S. Mishra, and O. Jaquet, 1994. Investigating the effects of near-field characteristics on gas and watertransport from a L/ILW Repository in Wittman (ed.), Corrosion and Gas Generation in Radioactive Waste Repositories, Proceeding of Post-ConferenceSeminar No. 10 of the 12th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology SMiRT-12, Stuttgart, Aedification Verlag, Unterengstringen.

Lavenue, A.M.,  B.S. Rama Rao,and G. deMarsily, 1993, A Modeling Approach to Address Spatial Variability Within the Culebra Dolomite Transmissivity Field, Proceedings 1993 Ground Water Modeling Conference, IGWMC, Golden, Colorado, June 9-12, 1993.

Jones, T.L., V.A. Kelley, J.F. Pickens, R.L. Beauheim, and P.B. Davies, 1993. Transport Process Identification from Interpretation of Conservative Tracer Tests Performed in the Culebra Dolomite at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site, Published in the Proceedings of Focus'93, Site Characterization and Model Validation, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 26-29, 1993.

Lavenue, A.M. and J.F. Pickens, 1992. Application of a Coupled Adjoint Sensitivity and Kriging Approach to Calibratea Ground-Water Flow Model. Water Resources Research, Vol. 28, No. 6, p. 15431569.

Pickens, J.F. and T.L. Cauffman, 1991.Double-Porosity Interpretations of Convergent-Flow Tracer Tests in the Culebra Dolomite at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Site. Paper presented at INTRAVAL Working Group 2 Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 10.

Beauheim, R.L., and A.M. Lavenue, 1990. Use of Large Scale Transient Stresses and a Coupled Adjoint Sensitivity/Kriging Approach to Calibrate a Ground-Water Flow Model at the WIPP Site, presented at GEOVAL 1990, Stockholm, Sweden, May 14-17, 1990.

Lavenue, A.M., B.S. RamaRao, and M. Reeves, 1989. An Application of Coupled Adjoint-Sensitivity and Kriging Techniques to Calibrate a Ground-Water Flow Model in the Vicinity of a NuclearWaste Repository, presented at 28th International Geological Congress,Washington, D.C., July 14, 1989.

Pickens, J.F., V.A. Kelley, and M. Reeves, 1988. Evaluation of the Role of Fractures in Governing Solute Transport in the Culebra Dolomite at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Site. Abstract in EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 69, No. 44,p.1177; presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5-9 December.

Andrews, R.W., A.M. Lavenue, and J.A. McNeish, 1988. Evaluating the Effect of  Sampling and Spatial Correlation on Ground-Water Travel Time Uncertainty Coupling Geostatistical, Stochastic, and First Order, Second Moment Methods, Proceedings of Geostatistical, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Methods for Ground-Water Flow and Radionuclide Transport Modeling, San Francisco, CA, September 15, 1988.

Tomasko, D., M. Reeves, V.A. Kelley and J.F. Pickens, 1987. Parameter Sensitivity and Importance for Radionuclide Transport in Double Porosity Systems. In: Proceedings of  DOE/AECL Conference on Geostatistical Sensitivity and Uncertainty Methods for Ground Water Flow and Radionuclide Transport Modeling, pp. 297-321; presented September 15-17, 1987, San Francisco, California.

Lavenue, A.M. and R.W. Andrews, 1987. "Ground-Water Travel Time Uncertainty Analysis: A Comparison Between the Differential and Probabilistic Techniques," paper presented at American Geophysical Union, Baltimore Meeting, EOS, Vol. 68, No. 16, April 21,1987.

Andrews, R.W., A.M. Lavenue, B.M. Thompson, and J.E. Campbell, 1987. Application of Uncertainty Analysis Techniques to Address NRC Travel Time Performance Measures at a Potential HLW Disposal Site in Deaf  Smith County, Texas. NWWA Proceedings from Solving Ground Water Problems with Models, Vol. 1, February 1987, Denver, Colorado.

Grisak, G.E., and J.F. Pickens, 1985. A Synthesis of Tracer and Hydraulic Testing Methods with Emphasis on Hydrologic Characterization for Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management. Abstract in EOS Transactions, AGU, Vol.66, No. 46, p.895, presented at AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, California, December 9-11.

Grisak, G.E., 1984. How to Select a Waste Disposal Site. Hydrogeologic Characteristics of Sites for Waste Disposal Operations. Paper presented at Canadian Water Resources Association Conference on Siting of Solid Waste Disposal Operations, Ottawa, March 6.

Grisak, G.E., 1981. Aspects of Hydrogeology and Geochemistry in Deep Underground Disposal. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Toronto, January 3-8.

Cherry, J.A., R.W. Gillham, G.E. Grisak and D.L. Lush, 1979. A Concept for Long-term Isolation of Solid Radioactive Waste in Fine-grained Deposits. In: Management of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., Pergamon Press, pp. 1021-1040.

Pickens, J.F. and G.E. Grisak, 1979.Finite Element Analysis of  Liquid Flow, Heat Transport and Solute Transport in a Ground Water Flow System: Governing Equations and Model Formulation. AtomicEnergy of Canada Ltd., AECL Technical  Record TR 81, p.30

Grisak, G.E. and R.E. Jackson, 1978. Hydrogeological Factors and Processes Involved in Shallow, Subsurface Radioactive-waste Management in Canadian Terrain. Environment Canada, Inland Waters Branch Scientific Series, Scientific Series No. 84, 194p.

Frind, E.O.,  R.W. Gillham and J.F. Pickens, 1977. Application of Unsaturated Flow Properties in the Design of Geologic Environments for Radioactive Waste Storage Facilities. In: Proc. 1st Int. Conf. on Finite Elements in Water Resources, Ed. by W.G. Gray,G.F. Pinder and C.A. Brebbia, Princeton University, U.S.A., 12-16 July 1976, p.3.133-2.163, Pentech Press Ltd., London.

Cherry, J.A., G.E. Grisak and W.E. Clister, 1973. Hydrogeologic Studies at a Subsurface Radioactive Waste Management Site in West-central Canada. Int. Symp. on Underground Waste Management and Artificial Recharge, AAPG-USGS, New Orleans. Ed. by J.Braunstein, Vol. 1, p.436-467.

Cherry, J.A., W.E. Clister, G.E. Grisak, and R.E. Jackson, 1973. Hydrogeologic Factors in Shallow Subsurface Radioactive Waste Management, Geol. Assoc. Can., Program in Abstracts, 23-26 May, Saskatoon, Canada.