Acknowledgement
The authors appreciate and thank the DECOVALEX-2023 Funding Organizations, Andra, BASE, BGE, BGR, CAS, CNSC, COVRA, US DOE, ENRESA, ENSI, JAEA, KAERI, NWMO, RWM, SURAO, SSM and Taipower for their financial and technical support of the work described in this paper. The statements made in the paper are, however, solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Funding Organizations. This research was supported by the Basic Research Project of the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (GP2020-010) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea. This work was also supported by the Institute for Korea Spent Nuclear Fuel (iKSNF) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant (2021M2E1A1085193) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea.
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