A strategy for describing the biosphere at candidate sites for repositories of nuclear waste: linking ecosystem and landscape modeling.
To provide information necessary for a license application for a deep repository for spent nuclear fuel, the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. has started site investigations at two sites in Sweden. In this paper, we present a strategy to integrate site-specific ecosystem data into spatially explicit models needed for safety assessment studies and the environmental impact assessment. The site-specific description of ecosystems is developed by building discipline-specific models from primary data and by identifying interactions and stocks and flows of matter among functional units at the sites. The conceptual model is a helpful initial tool for defining properties needed to quantify system processes, which may reveal new interfaces between disciplines, providing a variety of new opportunities to enhance the understanding of the linkages between ecosystem characteristics and the functional properties of landscapes. This type of integrated ecosystem-landscape characterization model has an important role in forming the implementation of a safety assessment for a deep repository.
Lindborg
Tobias
T
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co., Stockholm. tobias.lindborg@skb.se
Lindborg
Regina
R
Löfgren
Anders
A
Söderbäck
Björn
B
Bradshaw
Clare
C
Kautsky
Ulrik
U
D017753:Ecosystem; D008004:Licensure; D011850:Radioactive Waste; D012449:Safety; D013548:Sweden; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards
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