• The Design Procedure of Groundwater Monitoring Wells for the Site Selection of the High Level Radioactive Waste Disposal

  • Kim Taehee*

  • Korea Institute of Geosceince and Moneral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, Korea

  • 고준위 방사성 폐기물 처분장 부지 평가를 위한 배경 지하수위 관측정의 설계와 절차

  • 김태희*

  • 한국지질자원연구원

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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This Article

  • 2025; 30(3): 14-28

    Published on Jun 30, 2025

  • 10.7857/JSGE.2025.30.3.014
  • Received on May 28, 2025
  • Revised on Jun 13, 2025
  • Accepted on Jun 26, 2025

Correspondence to

  • Kim Taehee

  • Korea Institute of Geosceince and Moneral Resources, Daejeon, 34132, Korea

  • E-mail: katzura@kigam.re.kr