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Redox buffering is one important factor to be considered when assessing the barrier function of potential host rocks for a deep geological repository for long-lived radioactive waste. If such a repository is to be sited in fractured crystalline host rock it must be demonstrated that waste will be emplaced deeper than the maximum depth to which oxidizing waters can penetrate from the earth’s surface via fractures, during the assessment timeframe (typically 1 Ma). An analogue for penetration of such oxidizing water occurs in the Cretaceous Toki Granite of central Japan. Here, a deep redox front is developed along water-conducting fractures at a depth of 210 m below the ground surface. Detailed petrographical studies and geochemical analyses were carried out on drill core specimens of this redox front. The aim was to determine the buffering processes and behavior of major and minor elements, including rare earth elements (REEs), during redox front development. The results are compared with analytical data from an oxidized zone found along shallow fractures (up to 20 m from the surface) in the same granitic rock, in order to understand differences in elemental migration according to the depth below the ground surface of redox-front formation. Geochemical analyses by XRF and ICP-MS of the oxidized zone at 210 m depth reveal clear changes in Fe(III)/Fe(II) ratios and Ca depletion across the front, while Fe concentrations vary little. In contrast, the redox front identified along shallow fractures shows strong enrichments of Fe, Mn and trace elements in the oxidized zone compared with the fresh rock matrix. The difference can be ascribed to the changing Eh and pH of groundwater as it flows downwards in the granite, due to reactions with rock forming minerals, in particular feldspar dissolution. These observations give important insights into the processes that control the rates of redox front penetration in fractured crystalline rock. The findings of the study can be used to help build confidence among stakeholders that radioactive waste would be emplaced in such rocks at greater depth than that to which oxidizing water is likely to penetrate in future. 相似文献
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Sequential leaching methods have been used to determine the mineralogical distribution of some trace elements for environmental purposes, such as radiological contamination of soils and sediments, bioavailability studies and natural analogues of deep geological radwaste disposals. In this context, a 7-step-sequential leaching protocol is applied to Fe(III)–U(VI)-rich fracture filling materials from the oxidised zone of the “Mina Fe” U deposit to identify and evaluate the main sinks of natural nuclides and other analogue trace elements, since it is crucial in the performance assessment of a nuclear waste repository.After a careful characterisation of the samples, the analytical data from each leaching step were statistically analysed and then interpreted in light of the mineralogical and geochemical features of the samples. Precise knowledge of the mineralogical distribution of trace elements by sequential leaching methods is quite complex, mainly due to cross-contamination throughout the different steps of the experiments. Thus, the results obtained suggest that U is retained as U-minerals, mainly oxides, closely associated with crystalline Fe-oxyhydroxides. Though Ce and La also form independent compounds, such as Ce oxides and La–Nd phosphates, they are mainly retained by the amorphous Mn-oxyhydroxides. However, the crystalline Mn-oxyhydroxides are the main sink for Ni and crystalline Fe-oxyhydroxides mainly retain P. 相似文献
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Proterozoic basement-hosted unconformity-related uranium deposits of the Athabasca Basin (Saskatchewan, Canada) were affected
by significant uranium redistribution along oxidation–reduction redox fronts related to cold and late meteoric fluid infiltration.
These redox fronts exhibit the same mineralogical and geochemical features as the well-studied uranium roll-front deposits
in siliclastic rocks. The primary hydrothermal uranium mineralisation (1.6–1.3 Ga) of basement-hosted deposits is strongly
reworked to new disseminated ores comprising three distinctly coloured zones: a white-green zone corresponding to the previous
clay-rich alteration halo contemporaneous with hydrothermal ores, a uranium front corresponding to the uranium deposition
zone of the redox front (brownish zone, rich in goethite) and a hematite-rich red zone marking the front progression. The
three zones directly reflect the mineralogical zonation related to uranium oxides (pitchblende), sulphides, iron minerals
(hematite and goethite) and alumino-phosphate-sulphate (APS) minerals. The zoning can be explained by processes of dissolution–precipitation
along a redox interface and was produced by the infiltration of cold (<50°C) meteoric fluids to the hydrothermally altered
areas. U, Fe, Ca, Pb, S, REE, V, Y, W, Mo and Se were the main mobile elements in this process, and their distribution within
the three zones was, for most of them, directly dependent on their redox potential. The elements concentrated in the redox
fronts were sourced by the alteration of previously crystallised hydrothermal minerals, such as uranium oxides and light rare
earth element (LREE)-rich APS. The uranium oxides from the redox front are characterised by LREE-enriched patterns, which
differ from those of unconformity-related ores and clearly demonstrate their distinct conditions of formation. Uranium redox
front formation is thought to be linked to fluid circulation episodes initiated during the 400–300 Ma period during uplift
and erosion of the Athabasca Basin when it was near the Equator and to have been still active during the last million years.
A major kaolinisation event was caused by changes in the fluid circulation regime, reworking the primary uranium redox fronts
and causing the redistribution of elements originally concentrated in the uranium-enriched meteoric-related redox fronts. 相似文献
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Teflon strips were used in-situ in the bottom sediments at two sites in the Swan River Estuary to collect diagenetic Fe–Mn oxyhydroxides and monitor monthly changes in their morphology and trace element geochemistry. This study demonstrates that substantial concentrations of trace elements accumulate at the redox front during the formation of diagenetic Fe–Mn oxyhydroxides. It is likely that the Fe–Mn oxyhydroxides initially nucleate and grow on the Teflon strips via bacterial activity. Trace element geochemistry of the diagenetic Fe–Mn oxyhydroxides is influenced by changes in the supply of trace elements from either the bottom sediments and/or water column or changes in the physico-chemical status of bottom and porewaters. If sufficient diagenetic Fe–Mn oxyhydroxides are preserved in the upper layer(s) of the bottom sediment it is possible that diagenetic (secondary) trace element enrichment profiles may be produced which modify the historical input of natural or anthropogenic trace element sources. Alternatively, partial or complete dissolution of the diagenetic Fe–Mn oxyhydroxides in response to temporal changes in the redox status of the bottom sediment may lead to a substantial underestimate of trace element fluxes in historical bottom sediment profiles. This study highlights that considerable care must be taken when interpreting short- to long-term geochemical profiles in bottom sediments due to the possible occurrence of rapid, seasonally mediated diagenetic processes. 相似文献
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世界上很多国家都对处置库的可能围岩进行了详细研究。通过对比,认为花岗岩、黏土岩、岩盐比较适合作为处置库围岩,而黏土岩由于具有自封闭性、渗透率低等其他岩石类型不可比拟的优点,因而将黏土岩作为高放废物地质处置库围岩越来越受到各国的关注。文章同时介绍了瑞士、法国、比利时等国家在黏土岩中所进行的大量研究,均认为在黏土岩中处置高放废物和乏燃料是安全的。文章还对黏土岩处置库概念设计、黏土岩处置库围岩地下实验室研究,以及我国开展黏土岩处置库研究的意义等进行了综述。 相似文献
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热-水-力(THM)耦合作用是岩石力学与环境地质中的重要基础理论问题,核废料地质处置库周围的缓冲材料和围岩中的热-水-力耦合现象将影响其力学稳定性、热传导性和渗透性,进而影响放射性核素在裂隙岩体中的迁移规律。核废料或放射性废料的地下深埋处置是国际上正在研究的永久性隔离的有效方法之一。因此,对核废料地质处置法安全性评估的一个重要内容就是对裂隙岩体中力学稳定性与构造应力、地下水渗流及热载荷等的耦合作用之数值模拟和评估。这已成为当前刻不容缓的重要的环境影响评价课题。笔者研究了温度场-渗流场-应力场中热传导系数和渗透率以及岩体力学参数的空间变异性,用实验方法研究三场耦合效应及裂隙岩体的场性能等效处理,试图建立热-水-力耦合作用的随机性数学模型及可视化数值模拟方法,为核废料地质处置安全性评估提供直观的新方法。 相似文献
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本文介绍了高放废物处置场的基本结构并着重阐述了工程地质方法在高放废物处置场建设中的应用,应用主要包括以下几个方面(1)处置场场区围岩稳定性评价;(2)处置场场区岩体力学性质参数的测量;(3)建立处置场场区工程地质模型。 相似文献
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In the frame of the ENRESA natural analogue programme, the uranium ore from the “Mina Fe” (Salamanca, Spain) has been studied as a natural analogue of radioactive spent fuel behaviour. This uranium mine is hosted in highly fractured schistose rocks, a geological setting that has not been envisaged in the Spanish options for radioactive waste burial. However, some analogies with the processes that might be involved in the evolution of these geological repositories suggested this investigation. The pitchblende–pyrite–carbonate paragenesis has been studied “in situ” as natural analogue of the nuclear spent fuel behaviour under extremely oxidative dissolution conditions. Similarly, secondary Fe oxyhydroxides and clay minerals have also been considered as relevant analogue materials for the retention of uranium and other analogous trace metals. A multidisciplinary characterisation of the site has been performed in order to study these processes. Though the intense mining activities in the site hindered precise determination of the original hydrogeological and hydrochemical features of the investigated zone (Boa fault zone), the mineralogy and geochemistry of fracture fillings, mineralisation and associated clayey materials have allowed the geochemical evolution of the system to be established. Three geochemical zones have been clearly differentiated: (i) the oxidised zone, from the surface to approximately 20 m depth, (ii) the redox transition zone, from 20 to 50 m depth, and (iii) the reduced zone, located below the transition zone. The oxidised zone is characterised by the presence of the typical mineral association resulting from the strong acid conditions caused by the total oxidation of pyrite and other sulphides. The total oxidation, dissolution and leaching of U(IV), as uranyl–sulphate aqueous complexes, prevailed in this oxidised zone. The redox transition zone is characterised by the coexistence of the primary uranium paragenesis, oxidised minerals, as well as numerous secondary solid phases as a result of the physico-chemical changes in the environment. The optimal physico-chemical conditions for the coffinitisation of pitchblende and the co-precipitation of Fe(III)–U(VI) took place in this zone. In the reduced zone, where the primary uranium paragenesis is present, we currently find the necessary physico-chemical conditions to stabilise pitchblende, pyrite and carbonates. The physico-chemical conditions of the oxidised zone are not relevant to disposal conditions. In the transition zone, two main geochemical processes take place: (i) the coffinitisation of pitchblende, which may be an important process for the stability of spent fuel in reducing conditions, and (ii) the co-precipitation of the Fe(III) and U(VI) as oxyhydroxides, another relevant mechanism for the retention of uranium. The physico-chemical conditions that prevail below 50 m depth should be sufficient to stabilise a spent nuclear fuel repository, in the same way as they have been able to preserve the 34-Ma-old uranium deposit of the Mina Fe. 相似文献
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El Atshan mining area, central Eastern Desert, represents one of the uranium occurrences related to alkaline volcanic rocks in Egypt. Based on the plot of total alkali elements versus silica, these rocks are classified as trachytes. The U and Eu anomalies appear to be derived from trachyte exposed to a long period of alteration and rock–fluid interaction. The trachyte has been subjected to two phases of alteration. The pronounced chemical changes include the mobility of Si, Na, Fe, U, Zn and REE and the immobility of Mg, Th, Hf, Ta and Sc. The late stage hydrothermal solutions caused the breakdown of the feldspars by losing sodium, potassium and partially silica and eventually formation of argillic alteration products, dissolution of iron-bearing sulphides, formation of iron-oxy hydroxides and corrosion of primary uranium minerals forming uranyl oxide hydrates. The acidic water percolating through the fractured trachyte rock leached not only available major or trace elements, but also REE. Eu originally incorporated in feldspars as Eu +2 has been oxidized to Eu +3 and subsequently leached away leaving a negative anomaly in the host rock. The leached U and Eu were then transported most probably as carbonate complexes. The second phase of alteration occurred at the near surface profile when the late stage hydrothermal fluids cool to the temperature of meteoric water and may have mixed with it, the pH of the fluids would shift to more alkaline values and at these conditions U and Eu were precipitated into the fracture system mainly by being adsorbed on the clay minerals and probably coprecipitated with iron oxy-hydroxides. 相似文献
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甘肃省北山地区是我国高放废物处置库场址重要预选区之一,花岗岩是处置库候选围岩。10余年来,在北山地区开展了水文地质和同位素水文学调查、研究工作,为场址评价提供了重要的水文地质依据。今后,在深入开展预选区水文地质研究工作中,应进一步开展同位素水文学研究,示踪地下水的补给来源,揭示水循环过程,测定地下水滞留时间和流速等,以获得高放废物处置场址特性评价所需的水文地质参数资料。 相似文献
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河南萑香洼金矿床作为典型的构造蚀变岩型金矿床,通过研究分析该矿床F985矿化带的Ⅰ号矿体各类元素组分在不同地质体的含量变化特征,原生晕异常分带特征和地球化学轴向分带特征,建立了该矿床完整的地球化学异常分带理想模型,得出矿床地球化学异常轴向分带序列确定为:烃类、Sb(前缘晕)→As、Hg(矿头)→(矿中晕)Au、Ag、Cu、Pb、Zn、W、Mn→(矿尾晕)Mo、Co、Ni、Sn,并总结出了找矿预测标志,为该矿区深部找矿提供了一定的科学理论依据。 相似文献
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A small (360 × 180 m) rhyolitic intrusive body in the lower portion of the Portage Lake Lava Series of Michigan's Keweenaw peninsula was mapped and sampled in detail. The rhyolite is one of a number of similar bodies which make up less than 1% of the total volume of this thick Late-Precambrian plateau basalt pile. The rock is a low-calcium rhyolite with fine-grained homogeneous texture and sparse phenocrysts of plagioclase and quartz. Analyses of selected trace and major elements for 21 samples taken from the body reveal a chemical zonation consisting of a core zone enriched in K, Rb and Ba, and a border zone relatively poor in these elements. Little areal difference is found with respect to other elements tested (Mn, Sr, Zr, Ca, Ti, and Fe). This apparently primary zonation seems to result from the migration of K, Rb and Ba during crystallization of the shallow intrusive. Though zoned, the trace-element chemistry of the Fish Cove body is distinct from that of eight other rhyolites in the Portage Lake Lava Series, and suggests that fingerprinting by trace elements might be a fruitful method for identifying and correlating the sources of numerous rhyolitic pebbles in conglomerates interbedded with the basaltlava flows of the Portage Lake Series. 相似文献
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The use of yield in supports to control the final loading that develops upon a support system has been one of the most important deformation control techniques used by tunnelling engineers, both historically and currently. Successful use of this approach requires a thorough understanding of the process of rock–support interaction as it is an approach that can fail dramatically if incorrectly applied. There is a fine line between the yield support technique improving the conditions, and the approach resulting in the development of a large area of failed rock, which could ultimately be detrimental. The relationship between the support action and the rock has historically been studied using analytical approaches with the application of significant simplifying assumptions.This paper presents a new approach, where a state-of-the-art numerical model is run repeatedly to develop rock–support interaction curves. This has the advantage of allowing more realistic tunnel geometry, stress states and ground conditions to be simulated. It does, however, use the familiar output form of the relatively simple rock–support interaction curve as opposed to complex and voluminous graphics. Its disadvantage lies in the considerable number of computer runs required to develop the full solutions. Computer software has, however, been written to automate much of this process using a programming language within the modelling package.The analysis approach has been further improved by plotting not one rock–support interaction curve but a whole family of curves representing variations in the rock mass quality of the assumed ground, since this is the most variable of the input parameters for most tunnelling situations. This form of output allows engineers to study the practical range of yield they may require for their rock conditions and also to define at what rock mass quality they can expect the yielding approach to cease to be an effective strategy. This new approach has been presented on a test case history with idealized rock mass properties to illustrate the approach. However, it is an approach that can be specially tailored to any set of rock conditions, tunnel geometry or stress. 相似文献
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Today, a large amount of knowledge is available concerning various sites of potential high active waste (HAW) repositories in salt media. Domal Zechstein salt formations have been examined at several sites in Germany. Extensive R&D work was initiated in the former Asse Salt Mine in order to explore the suitability of salt for waste isolation by laboratory tests, theoretical studies and in-situ tests with test results forming a technological base for future repository development. Resulting from the inhomogeneity of salt structures the demanded safety of a permanent repository for radioactive wastes can be demonstrated only by a specific site analysis in which the entire system, “the geological situation, the repository, and the form and amount of the wastes” and their interrelationships are taken into consideration. The site analysis has three essential tasks: (1) Assessment of the thermomechanical load capacity of the host rock, so that deposition strategies can be determined for the site; (2) Determination of the safe dimensions of the mine (e.g. stability of the caverns and safety of the operations); and (3) Evaluation of the barriers and the long-term safety analysis for the authorization procedure. The geotechnical stability analysis is a critical part of the safety assessment. Engineering–geological study of the site, laboratory and in situ-experiments, geomechanical modelling, and numerical static calculations comprise such an analysis. Within a scenario analysis — according to the multi-barrier principle, the geological setting is checked to be able to contribute significantly to the waste isolation over long periods. The assessment of the integrity of the geological barrier can only be performed by making calculations with geomechanical and hydrogeological models. The proper idealization of the host rock in a computational model is the basis of a realistic calculation of stress distribution and excavation damage effects. The determination of water permeability along discontinuities is necessary in order to evaluate the barrier efficiency of each host rock. In this paper some important processes for the performance assessment are described, namely creep and fracturing, permeability and infiltration, and halokinesis and subrosion. For the future, the role and contributions of geoscientific and rock mechanics work within the safety assessment issues (e.g. geomechanical safety indicators) must be identified in greater detail, e.g. considerations of geomechanical natural analogy for calibration of constitutive laws. 相似文献
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金红石是各种岩石特别是地壳组成岩石中重要的副矿物,它在成岩、风化和各种不同程度的变质过程中均能保持极大的稳定性。同时,除主要成分TiO 2外,金红石还含有为数众多的其它微量元素(例如: Nb, Ta, Zr, Hf, Sn, Mo, Sb, Cr, V, W, U和Pb等),这些微量元素的变化特征,对于包含金红石的主体岩石所经历的地质过程具有非常重要的指示意义。近二十年特别是近十年来,金红石已成为地球化学研究领域的一个热点。对各种元素和同位素在金红石中变化特征的调查,被广泛地应用于对各种地质过程的了解,其研究应用的范围涉及到了整体地球的元素平衡、大陆地壳的形成机制、含金红石岩石的形成源区、变质岩石的温压条件和形成时代的研究等多个方面,同时其所包含的各种同位素体系也被广泛用于各种地质过程的示踪。本文综合近年来金红石研究的最新进展,系统表述了金红石作为一个近年来发展起来的重要地质信息储库,在地球化学研究中各个方面的应用。 相似文献
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高放废物处置库中乏燃料持续释放的热量对围岩的应力场和渗流场及其长期稳定性具有重要影响。围岩的热学参数依赖于岩石矿物组成、孔隙率和孔隙流体等因素,准确取值是进行高放废物地质处置库多场耦合分析的前提。通过细观力学分析,建立了围岩等效热学参数（热容、热传导系数、热膨胀系数）取值方法,并基于Biot孔隙介质理论,建立应力?温度?渗流三场耦合模型,进而提出了高放废物处置库围岩应力?渗流?温度耦合数值模拟方法。最后通过COMSOL Multiphysics多场耦合软件,利用瑞士Mont Terri高放废物地下试验室围岩温度?渗流?应力多场耦合现场试验数据对数值模拟方法进行验证,并探讨了温度?渗流?应力耦合过程的演化规律。研究表明,模拟结果和试验值吻合良好。研究结果可为我国高放废物处置库的安全评估和选址提供科学依据。 相似文献
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根据高放废物选址的要求,利用MapGIS对东天山地区不同时代岩体的空间位置、分布形态、出露面积,以及岩体与断裂构造、地震和矿床点等的空间关系进行了研究,对海量资料信息进行分析处理,可起到事倍功半的效果。利用MapGIS分析结果,初步筛选出阿奇山1号岩体、雅满苏北岩体作为高放废物地质处置库选址的有利岩体。 相似文献
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综合对比瑞典、加拿大、芬兰和美国等国高放废物地质处置库场址筛选技术思路,分析国外高放废物地质处置库场址筛选过程中取得的经验、教训,总结了我国处置库选址工作取得的成果和存在的问题。在综合研究基础上,分析提出我国高放废物地质处置库场址筛选总体技术思路,包括应遵循的原则、工作范围、目标和总体技术步骤等,以利于今后处置库选址工作更系统、规范和统一。 相似文献
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通过对东昆仑-阿尔金地区区域化探工作研究程度及取得主要成果的介绍,说明了该区开展区域化探工作所采用关键技术方法的有效性,并大致阐述了本区39种元素的富集特征及其分带性。通过研究认为,东昆仑-阿尔金地区是铅、锌、铁、铜、金、银、钨、钼、锡、锑、汞等多元素的富集区,东昆仑祁漫塔格是以铅、锌、铁、铜、钨、锡、金等为主的多金属地球化学带,阿尔喀山一带则是东昆仑地区的主要汞、锑地球化学带,另外,阿尔金金、铜成矿带和阿帕-茫崖超基性岩带也是本区具有重要地质找矿意义的地球化学区带,上述研究成果对该区后继的地质找矿工作具有极高的指导意义和参考价值,亦为该区成为重要的整装勘查区和资源接替区奠定了基础。 相似文献
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