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Proposals for the geological disposal of heat emitting high-level radioactive wastes (HLW) have been put forward by many countries including Japan, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, Spain and others. The disposal concepts invariably involve underground multi-barrier schemes where bentonite clay is chosen for a number of desirable attributes including its swelling potential and ability to trap the majority of released radionuclides (JNC 1999; Chapman and McCombie 2003).
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Ichikawa, Y., Selvadurai, A.P.S. (2012). Long-Term Consolidation of Bentonite and a Homogenization Analysis of the Flow Field. In: Transport Phenomena in Porous Media. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25333-1_10
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