Abstract

Compacted bentonite has been proposed as a suitable backfill material in the Swedish concept for underground storage of high-level waste. The backfill barrier will serve both as a physical barrier, preventing convective water flow and allowing radionuclide penetration only by diffusion, and as a chemical barrier capable of chemically interacting with the radionuclides.

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