Abstract
Abstract Natural geochemical factors are of significant importance for the design of underground waste disposal systems and their subsequent operation. Analysis of geochemical similarities between liquid radioactive waste (LRW) disposal sites and sulphuric acid uranium-leaching mines in sandy aquifer horizons, has proved to be a productive approach, permitting predictive understanding of the hydrogeochemical processes which might develop in aquifer horizons subject to the injection of LRW. The approach allows the attenuative geochemical properties of terrigenous aquifers to be estimated. It is demonstrated that a number of geochemical processes (neutralization, reduction, sorption, precipitation, pore occlusion and radiolysis) in the injection zone of such aquifers may lead to attenuation, degradation and solid-phase immobilization of contaminants associated with LRW.
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