Subsurface migration of radionuclides at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex:  1978

Humphrey, T.G.

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“…Robertson and others (1974) inferred that the chemical composition of water beneath the INEL (Idaho National Engineering Laboratory) near Arco, Idaho, reflects the composition of the surrounding tributaries rather than the chemical composition of basalt of the Snake River Group. Several investigators (Morris and others, 1963(Morris and others, , 1964(Morris and others, , 1965Barraclough, Teasdale, Robertson, and Jensen, 1967;Robertson and others, 1974; others, 1976, 1982; Barraclough and Jensen, 1976;Humphrey and Tingey, 1978) described the areal extent of plumes in the aquifer under INEL resulting from disposal of radioactive and chemical wastes. A predictive solute-transport model of the aquifer was developed by Robertson (1974Robertson ( ,1977 and evaluated by Lewis and Goldstein (1982).…”

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Solute geochemistry of the Snake River plain regional aquifer system, Idaho and eastern Oregon

Wood¹,

Low²

1987

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The Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) Program was started in 1978 following a congressional mandate to develop quantitative appraisals of the major groundwater systems of the United States. The RASA Program represents a systematic effort to study a number of the Nation's most important aquifer systems, which in aggregate underlie much of the country and which represent an important component of the Nation's total water supply. In general, the boundaries of these studies are identified by the hydrologic extent of each system and accordingly transcend the political subdivisions to which investigations have often arbitrarily been limited in the past. The broad objective for each study is to assemble geologic, hydrologic, and geochemical information, to analyze and develop an understanding of the system, and to develop predictive capabilities that will contribute to the effective management of the system. The use of computer simulation is an important element of the RASA studies, both to develop an understanding of the natural, undisturbed hydrologic system and the changes brought about in it by human activities, and to provide a means of predicting the regional effects of future pumping or other stresses. The final interpretive results of the RASA Program are presented in a series of U.S. Geological Survey Professional Papers that describe the geology, hydrology, and geochemistry of each regional aquifer system. Each study within the RASA Program is assigned a single Professional Paper number, and where the volume of interpretive material warrants, separate topical chapters that consider the principal elements of the investigation may be published. The series of RASA interpretive reports begins with Professional Paper 1400 and thereafter will continue in numerical sequence as the interpretive products of subsequent studies become available.

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Solute geochemistry of the Snake River plain regional aquifer system, Idaho and eastern Oregon

Wood¹,

Low²

1987

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“…Studies of possible subsurface migration of contaminants at the RWMC began in 1960. These earlier studies were specific to radionuclide contamination and are reported in documents by Schraalz, B. L. (1972); Barraclough J. T. et al (1976);Burgus, W. H. et al (1976); Humphrey, T, G. et al (1978); and Humphrey, T. G. (1980). The results obtained from these previous efforts provided useful data regarding potential migration of radionuclides.…”

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Site characterization program at the radioactive waste management complex of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

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Hubbell³

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“…Evidence of plutonium migration has been reported from Oak Ridge, Tenn., where plutonium was detected in water seeping through soil from a radioactive-waste burial ground (Bondietti and others, 1975), and in Idaho, where soil cores contained plutonium 75 to 100 cm below solid radioactive waste buried in a pit (Humphrey and Tingey, 1978). However, the detectable concentrations of 238Pu reported in table 16 could also be an artifact of the drilling or of counting statistics.…”

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Ground-water hydrology and subsurface migration of radionuclides at a commercial radioactive-waste burial site, West Valley, Cattaraugus County, New York

Prudic¹

1986

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Test holes and wells 12 Stratigraphy and general groundwater movement at the burial site 14 Physical and hydraulic properties of the till 20 Physical and mineralogical properties 20 Hydraulic conductivity 20 Anisotropy 2 3 Fractured zone 23 Lenses of sorted material 23 Extent and continuity 23 Hydraulic conductivity 29 Equivalent hydraulic conductivity of the till 29 Groundwater flow at the burial site 30 Flow within the till 30 Flow within the underlying lacustrine unit 32 Computer simulation of groundwater flow 33 North trenches 37 Page Groundwater flow at the burial site Continued Computer simulation of groundwater flow Continued South trenches Limitations and results Seepage from trenches to nearest streams Seepage through a hypothetical permeable layer Estimated traveltime Recharge to trenches Correlation of precipitation with water-level rises in trenches Effects of additional cover over trenches 1 through 5 on water levels Infiltration of precipitation through cracks in cover Cracks caused by settling of waste Cracks caused by seasonal drying of cover Chemistry of trench water Sampling methods Composition of trench water Radionuclide migration from trenches Outward migration Downward migration-42 4*; 46 47 48 Notation for Selected Radionuclides Notation 3H HTO "C 60Co 40R 22Na 85Sr 90gr 133Ba l34Cs 137Cs 241Am 238pu 239.240pu Element Tritium (hydrogen) Tritium (hydrogen in form of water) Carbon Cobalt Potassium Sodium Strontium Strontium Barium Cesium Cesium Americium Plutonium Plutonium Atomic weights 3 3 14 60 40 22 85 90 133 134 137 241 238 239,240 ALTITUDE DATUM The term "National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929" (NGVD of 1929) replaces the formerly used term "mean sea level" to describe the datum for altitude measurements. NGVD of 1929 is derived from a general adjustment of the firstorder leveling networks of both the United States and Canada. For convenience in this report, the datum is referred to as sea level.

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Subsurface migration of radionuclides at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex: 1978

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Solute geochemistry of the Snake River plain regional aquifer system, Idaho and eastern Oregon

Solute geochemistry of the Snake River plain regional aquifer system, Idaho and eastern Oregon

Site characterization program at the radioactive waste management complex of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory

Ground-water hydrology and subsurface migration of radionuclides at a commercial radioactive-waste burial site, West Valley, Cattaraugus County, New York

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