Conference Agenda
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| Location: Eilenriedehalle B |
| Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024 | |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Opening ceremony Location: Eilenriedehalle B |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Plenary #1: National Case Studies Location: Eilenriedehalle B Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium Invited Keynote: Irina Gaus (Nagra, Switzerland) "Optimisation of Clay based Repository Concepts_from site selection to operations"
Invited Keynote Optimisation of Clay based Repository Concepts_from site selection to operations 11:00am - 11:20am Safety-driven site selection in Switzerland: the earth-science basis for the deep geological repository 11:20am - 11:40am German site selection –clay rock related implementation and considerations 11:40am - 12:00pm Site Descriptive Models as a tool to develop subsurface understanding in mudrock environments: A UK perspective |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm |
2 min poster presentation #1 Location: Eilenriedehalle B |
| Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Plenary #2: Geochemistry Location: Eilenriedehalle B Chair: Thorsten Schäfer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Chair: Erika Anne Cornelia Neeft, COVRA, Netherlands, The Porewater extraction techniques from clay-rich sedimentary rocks 9:00am - 9:20am Elucidating the fate of hydrogen by means of deuterium gas injections: an in-situ experiment in Opalinus Clay 9:20am - 9:40am Effect of nitrate on in situ Se(VI) reduction in Opalinus Clay 9:40am - 10:00am High-resolution, integrated, chemically consistent sorption and diffusion data for radionuclide transport models: Examples from Switzerland for site characterisation |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Plenary #3: High temperature effects Location: Eilenriedehalle B Chair: Irina Gaus, Nagra, Switzerland 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"
Invited Keynote Understanding bentonite buffer under high temperature: modeling and tests 11:00am - 11:20am Clays at elevated temperature – key results of EURAD HITEC WP 11:20am - 11:40am Smectite alteration in ABM bentonites? New insights from layer charge measurements 11:40am - 12:00pm Heating load increase after 8 years of heating and related THM processes observed in the Full-Scale Emplacement (FE) experiment at Mont Terri |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm |
2 min poster presentation #2 Location: Eilenriedehalle B |
| Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Plenary #4: Gas Location: Eilenriedehalle B Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom EURAD-GAS, a step forward in understanding gas transport in clay-ey materials 9:00am - 9:20am Ten years of laboratory gas testing in Boom Clay at the UPC/CIMNE Geotechnical Laboratory 9:20am - 9:40am Advective gas migration in Opalinus Clay at the Mont Terri URL 9:40am - 10:00am Molecular scale understanding of gas transport in clays |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Plenary #5: Competence building and transfer Location: Eilenriedehalle B Chair: Juan Carlos Mayor, Enresa, Spain 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"
Invited Keynote Competence building in the frame of radioactive waste management: challenges and expectations 11:00am - 11:20am High performance reactive transport model for cement-claystone interface simulations 11:20am - 11:40am Hydro-chemo-mechanical and transport coupled phenomenon to explain overpressure in Callovo-Oxfordien clay formation 11:40am - 12:00pm Towards site specific R&D to underpin the management of gas generation in a UK Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm |
2 min poster presentation #3 Location: Eilenriedehalle B |
| Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024 | |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Plenary #6: Technology Location: Eilenriedehalle B Chair: Christophe Nussbaum, swisstopo, Switzerland Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France Invited Keynote: Thomas Lautsch (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, Germany) "KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA"
Invited Keynote KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA 9:00am - 9:20am Evaluating the Performance of the Composite Seals at Canada's Underground Research Laboratory (2008-2023) 9:20am - 9:40am A vertical Sandwich shaft sealing system at the Mont Terri rock laboratory 9:40am - 10:00am Contribution of Meuse / Haute-Marne URL to HLW cell design, construction methodology and phenomenological behavior knowledge |
| 10:30am - 11:40am |
Plenary #7: Machine learning Location: Eilenriedehalle B Chair: Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France Developpement and improvement of numerical methods and tools for modelling coupled process: Lessons learnt during EURAD joint programing initiative 11:00am - 11:20am Physics-Based and Data-Driven Digital Twins for 3D-Temperature Evolution in the Near-field of the FE Tunnel at Mont Terri 11:20am - 11:40am Advancing Pore Segmentation in Opalinus Clay: A Machine Learning Ensemble with Probability Estimation |
| 11:40am - 12:30pm |
Closing ceremony (awards) Location: Eilenriedehalle B |
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