Description

Fluid, heat, current, or solute fluxes can, in principle, be driven by hydraulic, thermal, electrical or chemical gradients. The off-diagonal processes in the matrix showing these fluxes vs. the driving gradients are collectively termed coupled (Onsager) processes.

OPA Category

Category as used in the OPA assessment

Bentonite-HR interface

OPA Number

Number as used in the OPA assessment

2.08

Waste Relevance

Classes of waste to which this FEP is relevant

SF/HLW

NEA V1 IFEP Reference(s)

Related IFEPs from the NEA V1 IFEP list from 1999

2.2.07, 2.2.10