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The multiple barrier concept is the cornerstone of all proposed schemes for underground disposal of radioactive wastes. The concept invokes a series of barriers, both engineered and natural, between the waste and the surface. Achieving this concept is the primary objective of all disposal programmes, from site appraisal and characterisation to repository design and construction. However, the performance of the repository as a whole (waste, buffer, engineering disturbed zone, host rock), and in particular its gas transport properties, are still poorly understood. Issues still to be adequately examined that relate to understanding basic processes include: dilational versus visco-capillary flow mechanisms; long-term integrity of seals, in particular gas flow along contacts; role of the Engineering Damaged Zone (EDZ) as a conduit for preferential flow; laboratory to field up-scaling. Understanding gas generation and migration is thus vital in the quantitative assessment of repositories and is the focus of the research in this proposal for an integrated, multi-disciplinary project.

FORGE is a pan-European project with links to international radioactive waste management organisations, regulators and academia, specifically designed to tackle the key research issues associated with the generation and movement of repository gasses. Of particular importance are the long-term performance of bentonite buffers, plastic clays, indurated mudrocks and crystalline formations. Further experimental data are required to reduce uncertainty relating to the quantitative treatment of gas in performance assessment. FORGE will address these issues through a series of laboratory and field-scale experiments, including the development of new methods for up-scaling, allowing the optimisation of concepts through detailed scenario analysis.

This report has been prepared by the British Geological Survey (BGS) as a product towards FORGE deliverable 3.16 (‘Results of the tests on concrete [part 2]’), and is a more extensive description of the work outlined in the previous report ‘Results of the tests on concrete [part 1]’ (towards FORGE deliverable 3.6). It outlines fluid chemical and mineralogical changes resulting from experiments of durations from 10 days to 1 year, reacting CO<sub>2</sub> with a repository backfill cement and synthetic cement porewaters.
[[category:OR/14/048 Results of laboratory carbonation experiments on Nirex Reference Vault Backfill cement| 02]]

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