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Jennifer M. Frederick, Glenn E. Hammond, Paul E. Mariner, Emily R. Stein, S. David Sevougian (SNL)
Proceedings | 16th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWM 2017) | Charlotte, NC, April 9-13, 2017 | Pages 265-272
An important feature required in all geological disposal system modeling is proper representation of waste package degradation and waste form dissolution. These processes are often treated as batch operations, meaning they are zero-dimensional. However, waste package canister degradation or waste form dissolution are affected by near-field conditions, and thus they must be coupled to the computational domain through the exchange of information on local conditions. Accurate waste package and waste form degradation behavior is essential because processes occurring at the batch level also affect far field conditions through heat and mass transport by advection or diffusion. Presented here is the development and performance of the Waste Form Process Model, an integrated module for waste package canister degradation and waste form dissolution developed by Sandia National Laboratories within PFLOTRAN. PFLOTRAN is an open source, massively parallel subsurface simulator for multiphase, multicomponent, and multiscale reactive flow and transport processes in porous media. PFLOTRAN is used to model geologic disposal systems for the Spent Fuel and Waste Science and Technology (SFWST) Campaign under the Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy.