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Session Overview
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024
10:00am
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10:30am
Opening ceremony
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
10:30am
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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"
 
10:30am - 11:00am
Invited Keynote

Optimisation of Clay based Repository Concepts_from site selection to operations

Irina Gaus



11:00am - 11:20am

Safety-driven site selection in Switzerland: the earth-science basis for the deep geological repository

Tim Vietor, Michael Schnellmann, Silvio Giger, Daniel Traber, Raphael Schneeberger, Gaudenz Deplazes, Niocalas Roy, Valentina Zampetti, Angela Landgraf, Andreas Ludwig, Urs H. Fischer, Jens Becker, Nathan Looser



11:20am - 11:40am

German site selection –clay rock related implementation and considerations

Nadine Schöner, Sönke Reiche



11:40am - 12:00pm

Site Descriptive Models as a tool to develop subsurface understanding in mudrock environments: A UK perspective

Jason Canning, Fiona McEvoy, Stephanie Kape, David Eastwell, Christian Strand, Rob Mclaverty, Chris Gilbert, Lee Hartley, Tom Haines, Dave McCarthy, Lorraine Field, Chris Jackson

12:00pm
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024
8:30am
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10:00am
Plenary #2: Geochemistry
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Chair: Thorsten Schäfer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Chair: Erika Anne Cornelia Neeft, COVRA, Netherlands, The
 
8:30am - 9:00am

Porewater extraction techniques from clay-rich sedimentary rocks

Martin Mazurek, Paul Wersin, Florian Eichinger, Adrian Bath, Tom Al, Ian D. Clark, Laura Kennell-Morrison, Niko Kampman, Daniel Traber



9:00am - 9:20am

Elucidating the fate of hydrogen by means of deuterium gas injections: an in-situ experiment in Opalinus Clay

Mélanie Lundy, Christian Ostertag-Henning, Paul Königer, Stefan Wechner, Yanick Lettry, Myriam Agnel, Agnès Vinsot



9:20am - 9:40am

Effect of nitrate on in situ Se(VI) reduction in Opalinus Clay

Nele Bleyen, Katrien Hendrix, Kristel Mijnendonckx, Catherine Lerouge, Veerle Van Gompel, Jef Mathijs, Elie Valcke



9:40am - 10:00am

High-resolution, integrated, chemically consistent sorption and diffusion data for radionuclide transport models: Examples from Switzerland for site characterisation

Raphael Wuest, Martin Glaus, Dmitrii Kulik, Luc Van Loon, Maria Marques Fernandes, Dan Miron, Olha Marinich, Jens Becker, Bart Baeyens, Xiaoshuo Li

10:30am
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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"
 
10:30am - 11:00am
Invited Keynote

Understanding bentonite buffer under high temperature: modeling and tests

Liange Zheng



11:00am - 11:20am

Clays at elevated temperature – key results of EURAD HITEC WP

Markus Olin, Dragan Grgic, Jiří Svoboda



11:20am - 11:40am

Smectite alteration in ABM bentonites? New insights from layer charge measurements

Nadine J. Kanik, Reiner Dohrmann, Stephan Kaufhold, Arkadiusz Derkowski



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

Berrak Firat Lüthi, Dr. Raphael Schneeberger, Bill Lanyon

12:00pm
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024
8:30am
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10:00am
Plenary #4: Gas
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
 
8:30am - 9:00am

EURAD-GAS, a step forward in understanding gas transport in clay-ey materials

Séverine Levasseur, Xavier Sillen, Frédéric Collin, Magdalena Dymitrowska, Jon Harrington, Elke Jacops, Olaf Kolditz, Paul Marschall, Simon Norris, Jean Talandier, Laurent Truche, Jacques Wendling



9:00am - 9:20am

Ten years of laboratory gas testing in Boom Clay at the UPC/CIMNE Geotechnical Laboratory

Laura Gonzalez-Blanco, Enrique Romero, Séverine Levasseur



9:20am - 9:40am

Advective gas migration in Opalinus Clay at the Mont Terri URL

Robert Cuss, Jocelyn Gisiger, Antonio Rinaldi, Manuel Sentis, Andrew Wiseall, Jon Harrington



9:40am - 10:00am

Molecular scale understanding of gas transport in clays

Sergey Churakov, Jerry Owusu, Athanasios Mokos, Konstantinos Karalis, Nikolaos Prasianakis

10:30am
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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"
 
10:30am - 11:00am
Invited Keynote

Competence building in the frame of radioactive waste management: challenges and expectations

Christophe Bruggeman



11:00am - 11:20am

High performance reactive transport model for cement-claystone interface simulations

Micha Baur, Sergey Churakov, Nikolaos Prasianakis



11:20am - 11:40am

Hydro-chemo-mechanical and transport coupled phenomenon to explain overpressure in Callovo-Oxfordien clay formation

Lucile Rouïl, Stephane Gaboreau, Julio Gonçalvès, Jean Talandier, Jean-Charles Robinet



11:40am - 12:00pm

Towards site specific R&D to underpin the management of gas generation in a UK Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)

Andy Cooke, Simon Norris, Ben Swift, Joseph Elmes, Pedram Mahzari

12:00pm
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024
8:30am
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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"
 
8:30am - 9:00am
Invited Keynote

KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA

Thomas Lautsch



9:00am - 9:20am

Evaluating the Performance of the Composite Seals at Canada's Underground Research Laboratory (2008-2023)

Priyanto Deni, Kim Chang Seok



9:20am - 9:40am

A vertical Sandwich shaft sealing system at the Mont Terri rock laboratory

Katja Emmerich, Eleanor Bakker, Matthias Hinze, Klaus Wieczorek, Thomas Nagel, David Jaeggi, Senecio Schefer, Jürgen Hesser, Markus Furche, Rainer Schuhmann, Franz Königer, Uwe Glaubach, Christopher Rölke, Ralf Diedel, Juan Carlos Mayor, José Luis García-Siñeriz, Philipp Schädle



9:40am - 10:00am

Contribution of Meuse / Haute-Marne URL to HLW cell design, construction methodology and phenomenological behavior knowledge

Frédéric BUMBIELER, Gilles ARMAND

10:30am
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11:40am
Plenary #7: Machine learning
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Chair: Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany
Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France
 
10:30am - 11:00am

Developpement and improvement of numerical methods and tools for modelling coupled process: Lessons learnt during EURAD joint programing initiative

Francis CLARET, Guillaume PEPIN, Clément CANCES, Olaf KOLDITZ, Nikolaos PRASIANAKIS, Attila BAKSAY, Dmitry LUKIN



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

WILFRIED PFINGSTEN, Guang Hu



11:20am - 11:40am

Advancing Pore Segmentation in Opalinus Clay: A Machine Learning Ensemble with Probability Estimation

Marco Brysch, Ben Laurich, Monika Sester

11:40am
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12:30pm
Closing ceremony (awards)
Location: Eilenriedehalle B

 
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