Backfill is one of the main components of engineered barrier in a high-level waste repository. The material selection of the backfill determines the barrier performance of the backfill. Overseas, its related research has been carried out mainly in Sweden, Finland, Canada, and Japan. However, Korea has recently started backfill research, and it is urgent to select a potential material for establishing the concept of backfill material and conducting backfill research. This study reviews NEA report, potential materials for overseas backfill research, advantages and disadvantages of single and mixed backfill materials, cases of license applications in Finland and Sweden for the selection of potential materials for backfill in Korea’s high-level waste repository. The review results indicated that it is reasonable to carry out backfill research according to the following plan: Both single and mixed materials are considered as potential materials for backfill research; experiments and performance studies are conducted with these materials; and, based on the results, a potential material or candidate material for the backfill suitable for the HLW repository in Korea is determined. For this plan, the single material is tentatively selected, as in Sweden, as bentonite with a montmorillonite content of about 40-50%. Then, if the selection criteria for montmorillonite content are determined through experiments and performance studies, we determine the final potential backfill material. As for the mixed backfill material, the bentonite/crushed rock mixture seems to be more advantageous than the bentonite/sand mixture considering the disposing problem of crushed rock generated from tunnel excavation and economic feasibility through its recycling. It is thought that the bentonite used in the bentonite/crushed rock mixture should have a higher montmorillonite content than bentonite used as a single backfill material since the crushed rock acts as an inert material in the mixture. The results of this study can be used as basic data for selecting the backfill material to be applied to the high-level waste repository in Korea, and can be used as a guideline for selecting the potential material required for backfill experiments and performance studies to be carried out in the future.

가상의 심지층 처분 부지에서 이루어진 지하수 유동 모의 결과를 이용하여 처분 심도의 지하수 유량 분포를 분석하고 그 결 과를 처분 안전성 평가에 이용할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다. 처분 심도의 지하수 유동량은 가상의 처분 부지를 대상으로 한 광역 및 국지적 지하수 유동 모의 결과의 지하수두 분포를 이용하여 분석하였다. 지하수 유동량 분포를 이용하여 처분공 위 치의 지하수 유동량을 분석하고 최대값을 기준으로 지하수 유동량을 표준화하여 처분공에서의 처분 용기 파손 가능성을 확 률적으로 도시하였다. 확률적으로 제시된 처분 용기의 파손 가능성을 이용하여, 처분 용기로부터 누출이 일어날 것으로 가 정된 위치에서 지표 환경으로 이동하는 방사성 핵종의 이동량에 대한 확률론적 기대값을 계산하여 결정론적으로 평가된 이 전 연구 결과와 비교하였다. 이런 평가 방법은 현장 조건을 더욱 많이 반영할 수 있는 안전성 평가 방안 구축에 기여할 수 있 을 것으로 생각된다.

Oridinal thermal spray process has developed into two ways, namely, temperature dominated represented by plasma spraying, and velocity dominated represented by HVOF. It is common for both that the particle materials sprayed are basically in melted or half melted condition. New process has developed recently, that is, Cold Spray and Aerosol Deposition. Particle's heating is limited in CS lower than half of the material's melting point. Moreover, exactly no heating is loaded in AD process. Through the investigation on common feature for these three spraying processes, potential of new material process - Particle Deposition, PD - is considered and proposed