This paper addresses the problem of radionuclides transport through the artificial porous matrices constituting the engineered barriers of a permanent deposit for radioactive wastes under design by the Italian Agency for Energy and Environment (ENEA). The complexity of the phenomena involved,...

Regulations for the long-term disposal of high-level radioactive wastes command that the performance of the disposal facility be assessed for very long periods of time and quite extensive spatial scales. By nature, then, the analysis of the performance of a disposal facility relies on the...