Synthesis of results for Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) DECOVALEX-2023 Task E

Kuhlman, Kristopher L.; Bartol, Jeroen; Benbow, Steven J.; Bourret, Michelle; Czaikowski, Oliver; Guiltinan, Eric; Jantschik, Kyra; Jayne, Richard; Norris, Simon; Rutqvist, Jonny; Shao, Hua; Stauffer, Philip H.; Tounsi, Hafssa; Watson, Claire

doi:10.1016/j.gete.2024.100581

Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.gete.2024.100581

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Synthesis of results for Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) DECOVALEX-2023 Task E

Kristopher L. Kuhlman,

Jeroen Bartol,

Steven J. Benbow

et al.

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Utilizing high-resolution 3D Voronoi meshing to analyze field data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS)

Jayne,

Kuhlman

2024

Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment

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Utilizing high-resolution 3D Voronoi meshing to analyze field data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS)

Jayne,

Kuhlman

2024

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Measuring the Stable Isotope Composition of Water in Brine from Halite Fluid Inclusions and Borehole Brine Seeps Using Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy

Eldridge,

Mills,

Miller

et al. 2024

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Coupled modelling of brine availability in salt-based disposal facilities – learning from DECOVALEX-2023

Benbow,

Watson,

Bond

et al. 2024

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Salt is a potential host rock or caprock for deep geological disposal facilities for radioactive waste and has several favourable properties compared to other candidate rock types. In particular, intact salt has an extremely small porosity and permeability, which limits water availability and transmissivity. This has tended to lead to disposal concepts in salt being considered as ‘mostly dry’ and hence ideally suited to limiting groundwater interactions that could otherwise lead to corrosion of waste packages and mobilisation of radionuclides over isolation timescales (10 5 -10 6 years). However, there is plentiful experimental evidence to suggest that excavations in bedded salt can exhibit non-trivial inflows. These inflows often increase on heating and are thought to arise due to complicated interactions between thermal, hydrogeological and mechanical processes in the salt. Task E in the international collaborative DECOVALEX 2023 programme was established to attempt to better understand how these coupled processes affect brine availability in bedded salt. A summary of the UK team's learning from the task is given in this paper that may be of relevance when constructing models to inform future safety cases for radioactive waste disposal in salt, and other energy geoscience applications where brine interactions are a potentially complicating factor.

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Synthesis of results for Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) DECOVALEX-2023 Task E

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Utilizing high-resolution 3D Voronoi meshing to analyze field data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS)

Utilizing high-resolution 3D Voronoi meshing to analyze field data from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS)

Measuring the Stable Isotope Composition of Water in Brine from Halite Fluid Inclusions and Borehole Brine Seeps Using Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy

Coupled modelling of brine availability in salt-based disposal facilities – learning from DECOVALEX-2023

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