| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 205, 2020
2nd International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT 2020)
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| Article Number | 01001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Keynote Papers | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020501001 | |
| Published online | 18 November 2020 | |
Towards higher temperatures in nuclear waste repositories
1 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 08034 Barcelona, Spain
2 International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 08034 Barcelona Spain
* Corresponding author: antonio.gens@upc.edu
Recently, there is a tendency to explore the possibility of increasing the maximum design temperature in deep geological repositories for high-level nuclear waste and spent fuel. In the paper, a number of issues related to the use of higher temperatures are reviewed. Both bentonite barriers and argillaceous host rocks are addressed. An application involving the modelling of a large-scale field test conducted at a maximum temperature of 140ºC is presented. It is shown that currently available theoretical formulations and computer codes are capable to deal with temperatures above 100ºC and to reproduce satisfactorily the thermally-induced overpressures in the rock.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020
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