Surface water and erosion calculations to support the MDA G performance assessment

摘要

The performance of MDA G is dependent on surface hydrological and ecological processes because radionuclide transport by surface runoff can affect human and/or environmental receptors directly and the percolation for the subsurface radionuclide transport pathway is determined by the water balance in the near surface. For subsurface disposal of waste, surface soil erosion reduces the effectiveness of the surface cover and if wastes are exposed, then surface runoff can transport contaminants either in a soluble phase or sorbed to eroded soil particles. The objectives of this section are to estimate the effects at MDA G of surface runoff, soil erosion, and percolation. The conceptual and mathematical models will be reviewed, parameter estimation for the models will be presented and results and sensitivity analyses for a surface cover at MDA G will be presented.