To evaluate the characteristics of groundwater flow and nuclide migration through unsaturated loamy soil, various field tracer experiments have been carried out using both nonreactive tracers (D
2O, Br
-) and reactive tracers (Co, Sr, Cs). This paper discusses the migration characteristics of nonreactive tracers under the direct influence of natural rainfall and evapotranspiration.
D
2O was a more conservative tracer than Br
- ion to evaluate an unsaturated flow because the infiltration rate of Br
- ion was slower than that of D
2O owing to anion adsorption of allophane, a major mineral in loamy soil. The longitudinal and transverse dispersion coefficients were calculated from the spatial distributions of D
2O concentration. The linear relation between the maximum concentration depth of D
2O and the cumulative rainfall indicates that the rainfall gives a significant influence on the infiltration rate while the evapotranspiration gives little influence.
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