KINETIC MODEL SHOWING THE EVOLUTION OF LIQUID INCLUSIONS IN SALT ROCKS UNDER HIGH TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS

The paper focuses on a kinetic evolution model developed for an ensemble of inclusions in halites in a temperature gradient field. To demonstrate the safety of heat-generating radioactive waste disposal in salt rocks (halites), thermally induced migration of liquid inclusions should be studied. A simplest approximation was assumed to describe the liquid inclusion evolution in halites: Boltzmann type equation was obtained for the distribution function depending on the isothermal size of the inclusion, taking into account coalescence and instantaneous equiprobable decay. The research allowed to develop a software module providing numerical implementation of the kinetic model.

Keywords: radioactive waste, halite, ensemble of inclusions, coalescence, binary decay, isothermal size.

Avetisyan A. R., Korchagina O. O., Matveev L. V. Kinetic model showing the evolution of liquid inclusions in salt rocks under high temperature gradients. Radioactive Waste, 2022, no. 1 (18), pp. 86—90. DOI: 10.25283/2587-9707-2022-1-86-90. (In Russian)