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Evaluating Long-Term Evolution of Radionuclide Migration Conditions from a Repository at the Yenisei Site (Krasnoyarsk Krai)

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The article considers the procedure aimed to identify and select the factors, events, and processes that can have an effect on the long-term safety of radioactive waste repository to be constructed at The Yenisei Site (Krasnoyarsk krai). The geological factors to be taken into account in the development of scenarios for safety assessment are determined. Tentative quantitative forecasts of radionuclide migration are made taking into account possible climate evolution and vertical rise of the territory. The sensitivity of radionuclide migration model to variations in these factors is assessed.

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Original Russian Text © B.T. Kochkin, V.I. Mal’kovskii, 2016, published in Geoekologiya, Inzhenernaya Geologiya, Gidrogeologiya, Geokriologiya, 2016, No. 5, pp. 401–411.

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Kochkin, B.T., Mal’kovskii, V.I. Evaluating Long-Term Evolution of Radionuclide Migration Conditions from a Repository at the Yenisei Site (Krasnoyarsk Krai). Water Resour 44, 931–939 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807817070077

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