Gas breakthrough in compacted Avonlea bentonite

Several processes may generate gas in the proposed Canadian nuclear fuel waste disposal vault. Since a bentonite-based buffer is one of the proposed vault sealing materials, an understanding of gas migration through clay is important. Using specially-designed systems and five-minute pressure increme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hume, Harold B.
Format: Others
Language:en
en_US
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1674