Aquifers, radioactive waste migration

SIMULATION OF COUPLED THERMAL AND SOLUTE CONCENTRATION EFFECTS ON DENSE RADIOACTIVE WASTE MIGRATION IN DEEP AQUIFERS... 

Nuclear waste (Section II.A.2) presents even more serious problems than does chemical waste. No method of elimination is possible radioactive material must be sequestered from the environment until it decays, which for some common by-products of nuclear reactor operation will take thousands of years. Continual exposure to radiation promotes deterioration of materials, so nuclear wastes held in aboveground storage or in subsurface tanks must frequently be transferred to new containers. Burial of such wastes has frequently been discussed as a long-term solution to the problem of their disposal, but finding geological formations sufficiently stable and remote from aquifers into which the wastes might migrate has proven to be very difficult. At present, ahention is fo-... 

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