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International Collaborations Activities on Disposal in Argillite R&D: Characterization Studies and Modeling Investigations

Jove Colon, Carlos F.; Ho, Tuan A.; Coker, Eric N.; Lopez, Carlos M.; Kuhlman, Kristopher L.; Sanchez, Amanda C.; Mills, Melissa M.; Kruichak, Jessica N.; Matteo, Edward N.

This interim report is an update of ongoing experimental and modeling work on bentonite material described in Jové Colón et al. (2019, 2020) from past international collaboration activities. As noted in Jové Colón et al. (2020), work on international repository science activities such as FEBEX-DP and DECOVALEX19 is either no longer continuing by the international partners. Nevertheless, research activities on the collected sample materials and field data are still ongoing. Descriptions of these underground research laboratory (URL) R&D activities are described elsewhere (Birkholzer et al. 2019; Jové Colón et al. 2020) but will be explained here when needed. The current reports recent reactive-transport modeling on the leaching of sedimentary rock.