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Using doped glasses, the concentrations in aqueous solutions of Tc, Np, Pu and Am have been measured, over periods of up to 12 months, in the presence of various possible components of a future repository for vitrified high-level waste. The experiments were carried out under the reducing conditions anticipated in a repository. One possible repository design would incorporate a 20cm thick iron ‘overpack’ round the glass cylinders and a backfill of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) and Pulverised Fuel Ash (PFA). With this combination, the concentrations of Tc, Np, Pu and Am in the ‘repository’, after an 0.45um filtration, were respectively 7×10−9M, 7×10−10M, 2×10−12M and 2×10−12M i.e 0.1, 4, 1 and 45 times the ‘Limiting Concentration’ which, if present in drinking water, would lead to an annual dose of lmSv to someone drinking 2 litres per day.
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Hough, A., Marples, J. Repository Source Term for Vitrified High Level Waste. MRS Online Proceedings Library 127, 137–144 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-127-137
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