title: Interaction of3H+(as HTO) and36Cl-(as Na36Cl) with crushed granite and corresponding fracture infill material investigated in column experiments.
abstract: The transport of3H+(as HTO) and36Cl-(as Na36Cl) was investigated in the dynamic system, i.e., in the columns filled with crushed pure granite and fracture infill of various grain sizes. The aim of column experiments was to determine important transport parameter, such as the retardation, respectively distribution coefficients, Peclet numbers and hydrodynamic dispersion coefficients. Furthermore, the research was focused to quantification of the effect of grain size on migration of studied radionuclides. The experimental breakthrough curves were fitted by a model based on the erfc-function, assuming a linear reversible equilibrium sorption/desorption isotherm, and the above mentioned transport parameters were determined. The results showed that influence of grain size on sorption of3H+and36Cl-was negligible. Retardation and distribution coefficients of both tracers converged to one and zero, respectively, in case of all fractions of crushed granite and infill material. Generally, the presumed ion exclusion of36Cl in anionic form was proved under given conditions, only very weak one seems to exist in a case of infill material. In principal, both radionuclides behaved as non-sorbing, conservative tracers. On the other hand, the influence of grain size on Peclet numbers value and on dispersion coefficient was observed for both crystalline materials, namely in agreement with theoretical suppositions that the values of Peclet numbers decrease with increasing grain size and values of dispersion coefficient increase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, 115 19 Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Štamberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, 115 19 Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Š
authors.initials: Š
authors.lastname: Palágyi
authors.affiliation: ÚJV Řež, a.s., Husinec-Řež, Řež, Czech Republic ; Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Videnská
authors.affiliation: ÚJV Řež, a.s., Husinec-Řež, Řež, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Havlová
keywords: Crushed granite; Dynamic conditions; Groundwater; HTO; Modeling; Na36Cl