Publications

Nexia Solution'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.

Risk Assessment Contaminated Land Geology
Site End Point Management Environmental Modelling Safety Case Development
Geochemistry & Microbiology Site Investigation Landfill


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


Safe Management of the Contaminated Land Inventory, Sellafield, UK. Grundy, C. Humphreys, P. and Strong, R.

Integrated approach of field characterisation and risk assessment applied at a former industrial site. Environment Conference, Prague, September 2000. Grundy, C. L., Smith, P. J., Eleveld, P. and Smith, P. F.


Dispersion Parameters for Undisturbed Partially Saturated Soil. Beven, KJ; Henderson, DE; Reeves, AD. Journal of Hydrology JHYDA7, Vol. 143, No. 1/2, p 19-43, March 1993. 4 fig, 5 tab, 63 ref. EEC Grant No. EV40091 and UK NIREX Ltd Grant No. UX/96/242.

Flow separation in undisturbed soil using multiple anionic tracers. Part 1. Analytical methods and unsteady rainfall and return flow experiments. Hydrological Processes, 10(11): 1435 - 1451. Reeves, A.D., Henderson, D.E., Beven, K.J. (1997).

Flow separation in undisturbed soil using multiple anionic tracers. Part 2. Steady state core-scale rainfall and return flows and determination of dispersion parameters. Hydrological Processes, 10(11): 1451 - 1467. Henderson, D.E., Reeves, A.D., Beven, K.J., and Chappell, N.A. (1997).

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. Small, J.S., Zimmerman, C.H., Parker,D., Robbins,C., Bond,A, Stevens,G. 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. Kwong. S and Mackay, G.A. 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.S., Nykyri,M., Paaso, N., Hovi, U., Itävaara, M., Sarlin, T. 2005.

Application of a couple groundwater flow - reactive chemical model to a permeable reactive barrier. Proceedings of ICEM 05 The 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. Tahar, B. Small, J, Kwong, S, Bond, Paulley, A.

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. Tahar B, Small J, Bond A, Kwong S, McGarry R and Paulley A. 2005.

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., Abraitis, P.K., Beadle, I.R. Johnstone, Kelly, P. Pettit, C.L. and Stevens, G.A. 2004.

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., Humphreys, P.N., Johnstone, T.L. Plant, R. Randall, M.G. and Trivedi, D.P. 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., Randall, M.G., Abraitis, P.K. and Humphreys, P.N. 2000.

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.

Parameter and Process Significance in Cellulose Degradation modelling, 23rd European Conference of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, University of Paisley, UK, 4th -6th April 2005. Rotter B E, Barry D A, Gerhard J I, Small J S, Paulley A, Tahar B and Brovelli A. 2005.

Modelling of Glass Dissolution and Transport with the Code SUGAR. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXI, Materials Research Society: p. 253-260. Small, J.S., Trivedi, D.P. and Abraitis, P.K. 1998.


The Application of Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy to the Cheshire Basin: Implications for Permo-Triassic Basin Development. Smith, N. T.


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