THEREDA (Thermodynamic Reference Database) is a collaborative project, which has been addressed this challenge. The partners are Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT-INE), Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit Braunschweig mbH (GRS), TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF) and AF-Consult Switzerland AG (Baden, Switzerland). The aim of the project is the establishment of a consistent and quality assured database for all safety relevant elements, temperature and pressure ranges, with its focus on saline systems. This implied the use of the Pitzer approach to compute activity coefficients suitable for such conditions. Data access is possible via commonly available internet browsers under the address http://www.thereda.de. One part of the project - the data collection and evaluation for uranium – was a task of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. The aquatic chemistry and thermodynamics of U(VI) and U(IV) is of great importance for geochemical modelling in repository-relevant systems. The OECD/NEA Thermochemical Database (NEA TDB) compilation is the major source for thermodynamic data of the aqueous and solid uranium species, even though this data selection does not utilize the Pitzer model for the ionic strength effect correction. As a result of the very stringent quality demands, the NEA TDB is rather restrictive and therefore incomplete for extensive modelling calculations of real systems. Therefore, the THEREDA compilation includes additional thermodynamic data of solid secondary phases formed in the waste material, the backfill and the host rock, though falling into quality assessment (QA) categories of lower accuracy. The data review process prefers log K values from solubility experiments (if available) to those calculated from thermochemical data.

THEREDA (Thermodynamic Reference Database) is a collaborative project, which has been addressed this challenge. The partners are Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT-INE), Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit Braunschweig mbH (GRS), TU Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF) and AF-Consult Switzerland AG (Baden, Switzerland). The aim of the project is the establishment of a consistent and quality assured database for all safety relevant elements, temperature and pressure ranges, with its focus on saline systems. This implied the use of the Pitzer approach to compute activity coefficients suitable for such conditions. Data access is possible via commonly available internet browsers under the address http://www.thereda.de. One part of the project - the data collection and evaluation for uranium – was a task of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. The aquatic chemistry and thermodynamics of U(VI) and U(IV) is of great importance for geochemical modelling in repository-relevant systems. The OECD/NEA Thermochemical Database (NEA TDB) compilation is the major source for thermodynamic data of the aqueous and solid uranium species, even though this data selection does not utilize the Pitzer model for the ionic strength effect correction. As a result of the very stringent quality demands, the NEA TDB is rather restrictive and therefore incomplete for extensive modelling calculations of real systems. Therefore, the THEREDA compilation includes additional thermodynamic data of solid secondary phases formed in the waste material, the backfill and the host rock, though falling into quality assessment (QA) categories of lower accuracy. The data review process prefers log K values from solubility experiments (if available) to those calculated from thermochemical data.

The general temperature range for THEREDA is currently limited to 0 to about 110°C. For the important electrolyte NaCl there are thermodynamic data available to 200°C and above. To cover this larger temperature range for the Pitzer coefficients, a refit of the temperature functions of Greenberg, J. P. and Møller, N. (Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 53 (1989) 2503-2518) is presented. A corresponding function for the solubility constant of NaCl is deduced from IUPAC recommended data. The data set for NaCl, thus extended in its range of validity up to 200°C, is implemented in THEREDA.

In the ternary system CsCl – NaCl – H2O, at a temperature of 298.15 K, a double salt with the stoichiometric formula CsCl∙2NaCl∙2H2O(cr) is known to be formed. This double salt and the anhydrous CsCl(cr) are the end-members of a solid solution. For the pure double salt, the solubility constant was determined. The obtained value was applied to calculate the solubility diagram also of the quaternary system CsCl – NaCl – KCl – H2O and the quaternary-reciprocal system Cs+, Na+ || Cl−, SO42− – H2O. The solubility constant together with a solid solution between CsCl·2NaCl·2H2O(cr) and CsCl(cr) were implemented in THEREDA, which extends the applicability of the existing cesium dataset.

For the polythermal Pitzer dataset of the hexary system of oceanic salts (Na+, K+, Mg+2, Ca+2, Cl-, SO4-2 - H2O) including acids and hydroxides the data selection is documented in detail in the report “THEREDA - Thermodynamische Referenzdatenbasis” (Altmaier et al. 2011, https://www.grs.de/de/aktuelles/publikationen/grs-265-thereda-thermodynamische-referenzdatenbasis-abschlussbericht). The present short communication supplements this report by the numerical values of all temperature coefficients.

This report documents the selection of thermodynamic data for lead and lead compounds. Except for elemental lead, it is restricted to lead in the oxidation state +II (plumbous lead). Besides formation constants and, in part, enthalpies of formation and standard entropies, interaction coefficients for the correction of activity coefficients following the Pitzer formalism are provided. Aqueous complexes of lead with chloride, sulphate, and hydroxide are explicitly accounted for in the Pitzer model. Wherever possible, the validity of selected data is tested by recalculating experimental data. The presented data set is valid for 298.15K only.