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Slow processes in close-to-equilibrium conditions for radionuclides in water/solid systems of relevance to nuclear waste management

SKIN project is a 3 years (2011-2013) Collaborative Project under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM)

The objectives of the project are:

to assess the use/misuse of solubility data of sparingly soluble tetravalent actinides;
to understand the coupling of major and trace element chemistry in radionuclide migration behaviour considering the extremely large exchange pool of natural minerals present in the disposal sites;
to include irreversibility in models on the mobility of radionuclides in the repository environment;
to assess to what degree the ignorance/non-inclusion of these studied slow processes leads, in performance assessment, to over-conservative, or in few cases, even too optimistic evaluations. The inclusion of such processes in PA will also be assessed