Publications

NNL's Environment Team have produced or contributed to a wide range of publications over the past 10 years. Below is a summary of some of our published work.

 

Barber, N. and Lean, C.B., 2009. Assessment of the impact of radioactive disposals and discharges from the United Kingdom Low Level Waste Repository on the ecosystem. Proceedings of Waste Management 2009.

Dutton M. V. and Humphreys P.  The Application of Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) for Clean-up of Radionuclide Contaminated Sites.  (2005).  International Journal of Phytoremediation.  7: 279-293.

El-Ghonemy, H., Watts, L. and Fowler, L. 2005, Treatment of uncertainty and developing conceptual models for environmental risk assessments and radioactive waste disposal safety cases. Environment International, 31, 89 - 97.

Fowler, L.M. and Lean, C.B., 2005. Environmental assessment approaches and results for the low level radioactive waste disposal site at Drigg, Cumbria. Nuclear Future, 1(5), 186-191.

Kwong, S. and Willans. S.M.  2007.  SimER: An advanced three-dimensional environmental risk assessment code for contaminated land and radioactive waste disposal applications WM’07 Conference, February 25-March 1, 2007, Tucson, AZ.

Lean, C.B. and Fowler, L.M., 2006. Demonstration of optimisation of the disposal facility at Drigg. Nuclear Future, 2(1), 43-51.

Lean, C.B., Grimwood, P.D., Watts, L., Fowler, L., Thomson, G., Kelly, E. and Hodgkinson, D., 2004, The 2002 Drigg Post-Closure Safety Case: Implementation of a multiple factor safety case. In Geological Disposal: Building Confidence Using Multiple Lines of Evidence, NEA No. 4309, p 175-181.

Paksy, A. and Henderson, E. 2010. Water Balance Model for a Generic Near-Surface Disposal Facility – 10029. WM2010 Conference, March 7-11, 2010, Phoenix, AZ.

Parton, N.J., Paksy, A., Eden, L. and Trivedi, D.P. 2008. Modelling of remediation technologies at the performance assessment level.  WM2008 Conference, February 24 –28, 2008, Phoenix, AZ.

Randall, M.G., Trivedi, D.P., Graham, J. Small, J.S and Hughes C. 2004. Mineralogical characterisation of sediments at the Drigg lowl level radioactive waste disposal site and the influence on groundwater chemistry. Materials Research Society Symposium, Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXVII 807, p557-562

Small, J.S. 2004, Modelling the partitioning and transport of C-14 in a microbially active LLW site. Proceedings of a workshop on the release and transport of C-14 in repository environments. L.H. Johnson and B.Schwyn (eds.) NAGRA report Interner Bericht 04-03.

Small, J.S. 2004, Modelling the partitioning and transport of C-14 in a microbially active LLW site. Proceedings of a workshop on the release and transport of C-14 in repository environments. L.H. Johnson and B.Schwyn (eds.) NAGRA report Interner Bericht 04-03.

Small. J.S., Abraitis, P.K., Beadle, I.R. Johnstone, Kelly, P. Pettit, C.L. and Stevens, G.A. 2004, A comparison of site characterisation data and modelling results from a radiological assessment of the Drigg low level radioactive waste disposal site. Materials Research Society Symposium, Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXVII 807, p905-910.

Small. J.S., Humphreys, P.N., Johnstone, T.L. Plant, R. Randall, M.G. and Trivedi, D.P. 2000, Results of an aqueous source term model for a radiological risk assessment of the Drigg LLW site, UK. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXII, Materials Research Society.

Small. J.S. Kwong. S and Mackay, G.A. 2005, Parameterisation of a mathematical model to describe the settling behaviour of corrosion products of used nuclear fuel. Particulate Systems Analysis 2005 , Stratford upon Avon, England.

Small, J.S., Nykyri,M., Paaso, N., Hovi, U., Itävaara, M., Sarlin, T. 2005, Testing of a near-field biogeochemical model against data from a large scale gas generation experiment. Materials Research Society Symposium, Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, Ghent, Belgium Sept 2005.

Small, J. Nykyri, M., Helin, M., Hovi, U., Sarlin, T., Itävaara, 2008. M. Experimental and modelling investigations of the biogeochemistry of gas production from low and intermediate level radioactive waste.  Applied Geochemistry Vol 23. 1383-1418.

Small. J.S., Randall, M.G., Abraitis, P.K. and Humphreys, P.N. 2000, Modelling the ion exchange properties of geological materials and implications for radionuclide mobility. In: Ion exchange at the millenium Ed. J.A.Greig. p.124-132. Imperial College Press London.

Small, J.S., Zimmerman, C.H., Parker,D., Robbins,C., Bond,A, Stevens,G. 2005.  Repository performance assessment and advanced fuel cycle models for input to decision making of options for nuclear waste and resource management. Materials Research Society Symposium, Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, Ghent, Belgium Sept 2005.

Smith, N.T. and Henderson, D.E. 2008.  3D geological modelling of superficial deposits as a basis for 3D hydrogeological modelling:  Utilising site investigation data from on and around a UK nuclear site.  Poster Presentation: International Geoscience Convention, Oslo, Norway.

Smith, N.T. & Merritt, J.W. 2008. Further insights into the Quaternary superficial geology of West Cumbria, using 3D geological modelling: implications for Devensian palaeogeographic evolution. Proceedings of International Geological Congress, Oslo, 2008.

Steele H.M and Taylor R.J. 2007, Theoretical calculation of the Disproportionation reaction of the Actinyl ions. Inorganic Chemistry 46, 6311-6318.

Steele, H.M., Wright, K. and Hillier, I. H. 2002, Modelling the adsorption of uranyl on the surface of goethite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1305-1310.

Steele, H.M., Wright, K. and Hillier, I. H. 2003, A quantum-mechanical study of the (110) surface of sphalerite (ZnS) and its interaction with Pb2+ species. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 69-75.

Tahar B., Small J., Bond A., Kwong S., McGarry R. and Paulley A. 2005, Development and Application of a Multicomponent Reactive Transport Model with Coupled Geochemical and Microbiological Reactions, ModelCARE 2005, Fifth International Conference on Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater Modelling From Uncertainty to decision Making, Netherlands.

Wareing, A.S. and Fisher, J., 2008.  Development of Strategy for the Management of LLW in the United Kingdom.  Waste Magement 2008 (Arizona) Proceedings 8112.

Willans S.M., Galais, N.C.M., Lennon, C.P. andTrivedi, D.P. 2007, ReCLAIM v2.0: A spreadsheet tool for calculating doses and soil/water screening levels for assessment of radioactively contaminated land.  J. Radiol. Prot. 27: 87-93.

Willans S.M., Galais, N.C.M., Lennon, C.P  and Trivedi, D.P., 2007, ReCLAIM v2.0: Comparison of calculated doses with other assessment tools when emulating contaminated land scenarios ICEM07-7309 paper, September 2-6, Bruges, Belgium.

Willans S.M. and Richards H.G., 2005, RADCONTAB 1.0: A look-up tables tool for radiological assessment of contaminated land on Nuclear Licensed Sites. Guide and tool on SAFEGROUNDS website.

Willans S.M. and Richards H.G., 2006, RADCONTAB 1.0: A look-up tables tool for radiological assessment of contaminated land on Nuclear Licensed Sites.  J. Radiol. Prot. 26: 105-110.

 

Contact us