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Translating natural concentrations and fluxes into safety indicators for radioactive waste repositories

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Natural deposits of radioactive elements can provide important and very useful information for safety evaluation of radioactive waste repositories. The information is especially helpful for public communication. However, a simple comparison between the calculated fluxes and concentrations in a proposed repository and those natural ones can be ambiguous. This ambiguity arises from high complexity, imprecise knowledge, different data formats and units. This work suggests the use of a methodology, based on fuzzy logic tools, to handle this ambiguous information. A case study is presented as an example.

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  1. Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Brazil

    Francisco Lemos

  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

    Terry Sullivan

  3. Department for Inland Water Research, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research, Brückstr. 3a, D-39114, Magdeburg, GERMANY

    Kurt Friese

  4. Dept. of Civil Engineering, The University of New Mexico, NM, 87131, USA

    Timothy Ross

  5. Departamento de Geologia da Escola de Minas, Campus do Morro do Cruzeiro, UFOP- Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil, CEP - 35400-000

    Maria Barbosa

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  1. Department of Geology, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 12, 09596, Freiberg, Germany

    Broder J. Merkel

  2. Department of Geology, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 12, 09596, Freiberg, Germany

    Britta Planer-Friedrich

  3. Department of Geology, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Gustav-Zeuner-Str. 12, 09596, Freiberg, Germany

    Christian Wolkersdorfer

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Lemos, F., Sullivan, T., Friese, K., Ross, T., Barbosa, M. (2002). Translating natural concentrations and fluxes into safety indicators for radioactive waste repositories. In: Merkel, B.J., Planer-Friedrich, B., Wolkersdorfer, C. (eds) Uranium in the Aquatic Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55668-5_17

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