Temperature response and brine availability to heated boreholes in bedded salt

Abstract There is a growing need for disposal of high‐level nuclear waste. To reduce uncertainty associated with brine availability to repository excavations in salt formations, a collaboration between Sandia, Los Alamos, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories is performing a series of borehole...

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Main Authors: Eric J. Guiltinan, Kristopher L. Kuhlman, Jonny Rutqvist, Mengsu Hu, Hakim Boukhalfa, Melissa Mills, Shawn Otto, Douglas J. Weaver, Brian Dozier, Philip H. Stauffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-01-01
Series:Vadose Zone Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20019