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Waste-generated gas at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Papers presented at the Nuclear Energy Agency Workshop on gas generation and release from radioactive waste repositories
There are four papers contained in this report which were presented at the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Gas Workshop to provide information about studies of waste-generated gas being conducted for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The paper by Davies et al. provides a general overview of the physical conditions pertinent to waste-generated gas and of the coupling of chemical, hydrologic, and structural processes. The paper by Brush et al. describes specific gas-generation processes and the laboratory- and bin-scale experiments being carried out to characterize these processes. The paper by Mendenhall et al. describes coupled modeling of gas generation and room closure, and provides an analysis of the potential for fracture generation and growth. the paper by Webb describes a series of sensitivity calculations carried out to assess the importance of hydrologic parameters, such as formation permeability and two-phase characteristic curves. Together, these papers provide an overview of the present (September 1991) status of waste-generated gas studies for the WIPP.