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In Situ Solute Migration Experiments in Fractured Rock at KURT: Installation of Experimental System and In Situ Solute Migration Experiments

KURT 암반 단열에서 현장 용질이동 실험: 실험 장치 설치 및 현장 용질 이동 실험

  • Received : 2013.06.11
  • Accepted : 2013.07.26
  • Published : 2013.09.30
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Abstract

An in situ solute migration system was designed and installed in KAERI Underground Research Tunnel (KURT) constructed in the site of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in order to investigate the migration and retardation of non-sorbing and sorbing tracers through a rock fracture. The system is composed of three main parts including injection, extraction, and data treatment. For the selection of a water-conducting fracture, boreholes were drilled. The fractures in the drilled boreholes were investigated using borehole image analysis using borehole image processing system (BIPS). The results of BIPS analysis showed that borehole YH 3-1 and YH 3-2 were connected each other. Moreover, hydraulic tests were carried out to determine the test section with connectivity for the in situ experiments. The in situ solute migration experiments were accomplished to understand the migration of solutes through fractures in KURT using non-sorbing tracers which were fluorescein sodium, eosin-B, bromide and sorbing tracers which were rubidium, nickel, zirconium, and samarium.

암반 단열을 통한 용질의 이동 및 지연 특성 규명을 위한 현장 실험을 수행하기 위하여 현장 용질이동 실험 장치를 설계하여 한국원자력연구원 부지 내에 건설된 지하연구시설(KAERI Underground Research Tunnel, KURT)에 설치하였다. 현장 용질이동 실험 장치를 주입부, 회수부 그리고, 자료처리부 등 3개의 주요 부분으로 구성하였다. 지하수 유동이 있는 단열을 선정하기 위하여 총 5개의 공을 시추하였으며, BIPS(Borehole Image Processing System)를 이용한 시추공 영상 분석을 통하여 시추공의 단열 특성을 조사하였다. 시추공 영상 분석 결과를 통하여 단열 연결성 분석을 수행한 결과, YH 3-1 시추공과 YH3-2 시추공에 존재하는 단열이 상호 연결성이 높은 것으로 확인되었다. 수리시험을 통하여 현장 실험 대상 단열을 선정하였으며, 용질이동을 관찰하기 위하여 플루오레신, 에오신, 브롬 등의 비수착성 추적자 및 루비듐, 니켈, 사마륨, 지르코늄 등의 수착성 추적자를 이용하여 현장 용질이동 실험을 수행하였다.

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