Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 24/Nov/2024
 List of all Posters
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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The posters are on display every day! But they will be presented in three exhibition sessions. See below in the agenda for presenter slots "Poster exhibition..." one poster exhibition session on each conference day.

Staff will support presenters in attaching their posters to the boards on Sunday (during registration/icebreaker) and Monday morning. Posters not removed by Thursday end of lunch will be disposed of.
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3:00pm - 6:00pmScientific support programme: Mini-lectures
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm - 8:00pmIcebreaker + Registration
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024
8:30am - 10:00amRegistration
10:00am - 10:30amOpening ceremony
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Session Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #1: National Case Studies
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France
Session Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
Invited Keynote: Irina Gaus (Nagra, Switzerland) "Optimisation of Clay based Repository Concepts_from site selection to operations"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm - 2:30pmPoster exhibition #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #1: EDZ related processes
Location: Roter Saal
Session Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
Session Chair: Christophe Nussbaum, swisstopo, Switzerland
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #2: Bentonite stability
Location: Bonatz Saal
Session Chair: Lucie Hausmannova, SÚRAO, Czech Republic
Session Chair: Patrik Sellin, SKB, Sweden
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #3: Radionuclide diffusion and sorption
Location: Blauer Saal
Session Chair: Erika Anne Cornelia Neeft, COVRA, Netherlands, The
Session Chair: Thorsten Schäfer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
3:50pm - 4:20pmCoffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #4: Repository projects and programmes
Location: Roter Saal
Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Session Chair: Shigeru Kubota, Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, Japan
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #5: Geological setting and clay host rock
Location: Bonatz Saal
Session Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
Session Chair: Amade Halasz, PURAM, Hungary
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #6: Clay-iron/-cement interaction
Location: Blauer Saal
Session Chair: Reiner Dohrmann, LBEG, Germany
Session Chair: Mika Olavi Niskanen, Posiva Oy, Finland
6:00pm - 8:00pmNetworking event / Get-together
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024
8:00am - 8:30amRegistration
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #2: Geochemistry
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Thorsten Schäfer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Session Chair: Erika Anne Cornelia Neeft, COVRA, Netherlands, The
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #3: High temperature effects
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Irina Gaus, Nagra, Switzerland
Session Chair: Reiner Dohrmann, LBEG, Germany
Invited Keynote: Liange Zheng (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America) "Understanding bentonite buffer under high temperature: modeling and tests"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm - 2:30pmPoster exhibition #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #7: Mineralogical and hydrogeochemical characteristics
Location: Roter Saal
Session Chair: Christophe Tournassat, Universtité d'Orléans (France) / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), France
Session Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #8: THM heater experiments
Location: Bonatz Saal
Session Chair: Patrik Sellin, SKB, Sweden
Session Chair: Weimin YE, Tongji University, China, People's Republic of
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #9: THM modelling
Location: Blauer Saal
Session Chair: Wolfram Rühaak, BGE Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Germany
Session Chair: Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany
3:50pm - 4:20pmCoffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #10: Geochemistry and fluid migration
Location: Roter Saal
Session Chair: Christophe Tournassat, Universtité d'Orléans (France) / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), France
Session Chair: Juan Carlos Mayor, Enresa, Spain
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #11: THM bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
Session Chair: Weimin YE, Tongji University, China, People's Republic of
Session Chair: María Victoria Villar, CIEMAT, Spain
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #12: Performance and uncertainty assessment
Location: Blauer Saal
Session Chair: Xavier Sillen, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
Session Chair: Wolfram Rühaak, BGE Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Germany
6:00pm - 11:59pmConference dinner
Location: Hangar No. 5
Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024
8:00am - 8:30amRegistration
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #4: Gas
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
Session Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am - 12:00pmPlenary #5: Competence building and transfer
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Juan Carlos Mayor, Enresa, Spain
Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Invited Keynote: Christophe Bruggeman (Belgian Nuclear Research Center) "Competence building in the frame of radioactive waste management: challenges and expectations"
12:00pm - 12:30pm2 min poster presentation #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm - 2:30pmPoster exhibition #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #13: HM Processes
Location: Roter Saal
Session Chair: Wiebke Baille, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Session Chair: Xavier Sillen, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #14: Colloid formation from bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
Session Chair: Mika Olavi Niskanen, Posiva Oy, Finland
Session Chair: Christophe Tournassat, Universtité d'Orléans (France) / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), France
2:30pm - 3:50pmPS #15: Numerical tools for HMC processes
Location: Blauer Saal
Session Chair: María Victoria Villar, CIEMAT, Spain
Session Chair: Lucie Hausmannova, SÚRAO, Czech Republic
3:50pm - 4:20pmCoffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #16: (T)HM experiments
Location: Roter Saal
Session Chair: Patrik Sellin, SKB, Sweden
Session Chair: Wiebke Baille, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #17: Repository engineering
Location: Bonatz Saal
Session Chair: Shigeru Kubota, Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, Japan
Session Chair: Amade Halasz, PURAM, Hungary
4:20pm - 6:00pmPS #18: Gas related processes
Location: Blauer Saal
Session Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
Session Chair: Irina Gaus, Nagra, Switzerland
Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024
8:00am - 8:30amRegistration
8:30am - 10:00amPlenary #6: Technology
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Christophe Nussbaum, swisstopo, Switzerland
Session Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France
Invited Keynote: Thomas Lautsch (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, Germany) "KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA"
10:00am - 10:30amCoffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
10:30am - 11:40amPlenary #7: Machine learning
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany
Session Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France
11:40am - 12:30pmClosing ceremony (awards)
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Session Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
Conclusion by Dr. Thomas Lautsch (BGE); Panel discussion and Awarding of the poster prizes
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm - 5:30pmScientific support programme: workshops, seminars
Location: BGR
Date: Friday, 29/Nov/2024
6:00am - 3:00pmExc. Konrad: Excursion to DGR Konrad
Location: DGR Konrad
6:00am - 3:00pmExc. Morsleben: Excursion to DGR Morsleben
Location: DGR Morsleben
9:00am - 12:30pmScientific support programme: technical visits
Location: BGR

 
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