Acknowledgement
The authors thank the DECOVALEX-2019 Funding Organisations Andra, BGR/UFZ, CNSC, US DOE, ENSI, JAEA, IRSN, KAERI, NWMO, RWM, SÚRAO, SSM and Taipower for their financial and technical support of the work described in this paper. The statements made in the paper are, however, solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Funding Organisations. This work was also supported by the Nuclear Research and Development Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2018M2A8A5023379) funded by the Minister of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, and the Institute of Engineering Research at Seoul National University. We also thank two anonymous reviewers who provided constructive comments on the manuscript.
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