... a rational planning make it possible to assess the volume of waste, the flow paths and to evaluate the impact caused by the waste disposal. The major advantage of using a surficial geo-electrical method is to guide the drilling and sampling program as well as to define the location of monitoring wells...

... ABSTRACT: This paper presents a new testing method for unsaturated, low permeability formations. Such formations are often considered as a host rock for radioactive waste disposal. As the test objectives require determination of the in-situ environmental rock properties, only gas injection can...

... SUMMARY: Waste is an unavoidable consequence of various human activities. Waste disposal problems have been increasing at an alarming proportion worldwide. Due to strict regulatory controls on dumping of wastes on land and at sea, the subsurface burial of wastes is a disposal alternative...