Conference Agenda
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| Location: Eilenriedehalle B |
| Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024 | |||||||||||
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Opening ceremony Location: Eilenriedehalle B Session Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany Session Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany | ||||||||||
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Plenary #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" | ||||||||||
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10:30am - 11:00am
Invited Keynote ID: 459 / Plenary #1: 001 Optimisation of Clay based Repository Concepts_from site selection to operations Nagra, Switzerland
11:00am - 11:20am
ID: 108 / Plenary #1: 002 Safety-driven site selection in Switzerland: the earth-science basis for the deep geological repository 1Nagra, Switzerland; 2ETH Zürich, Switzerland
11:20am - 11:40am
ID: 460 / Plenary #1: 003 German site selection – claystone related implementation and considerations BGE, Germany
11:40am - 12:00pm
ID: 267 / Plenary #1: 004 Site Descriptive Models as a tool to develop subsurface understanding in mudrock environments: A UK perspective 1Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom; 2WSP; 3Galson Sciences; 4British Geological Survey; 5Jacobs
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| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | 2 min poster presentation #1 Location: Eilenriedehalle B | ||||||||||
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12:00pm - 12:02pm
2 min poster ID: 2454 Study on the construction of disposal scenarios and a tentative migration modelling of cesium for the final disposal of radioactive-ly contaminated waste outside of Fukushima Prefecture National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan 12:02pm - 12:04pm
2 min poster ID: 2130 Investigating the Effects of Small Organic Molecules on the Adsorption of Uranyl on Clay Minerals with Molecular Dynamics SUBATECH (UMR 6457 – IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3), France
12:04pm - 12:06pm
2 min poster ID: 2156 Numerical investigation of pore characteristics in spherical and platelet particle beds 1Hokkaido University, Japan; 2Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center, Japan 12:06pm - 12:08pm
2 min poster ID: 2378 Migration of caesium decreases with increasing compaction of MX-80 bentonite 1GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Fluid Systems Modelling, Potsdam, Germany; 2VKTA Radiation Protection, Analytics and Disposal Rossendorf Inc., Environmental and Radionuclide Analyses, Dresden, Germany; 3Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE), Department A Supervision, Berlin, Germany; 4Paul Scherrer Institut, Laboratory for Waste Management, Villigen PSI, Switzerland; 5Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf e.V., Institute of Resource Ecology, Dresden, Germany
12:08pm - 12:10pm
2 min poster ID: 2172 Understanding the Effect of Indigenous Microorganisms in Bentonite on the Biocorrosion of Metal Canisters, for the Final Disposal of Nuclear waste (Under Relevant DGR Conditions) 1Swansea University, Department of Chemical Engineering, United Kingdom; 2University of Granada, Department of Microbiology, Spain
12:10pm - 12:12pm
2 min poster ID: 2293 Temperature Influence on Swelling Pressure of Ca-Bentonite up to 150 °C Korea Advanced Energy Research Institute, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
12:12pm - 12:14pm
2 min poster ID: 2298 Implications of groundwater composition on the performance of ben-tonite components in nuclear waste disposal facilities 1Imperial College London, United Kingdom; 2Nuclear Waste Services, UK
12:14pm - 12:16pm
2 min poster ID: 2431 Role of poromechanical couplings in gas fracturing around an excavation 1Navier Laboratory, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Gustave Eiffel University, CNRS, 77455 Marne la Vallée, France; 2Andra R&D, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France | ||||||||||
| Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8:30am - 10:00am | Plenary #2: Geochemistry Location: Eilenriedehalle B Session Chair: Thorsten Schäfer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany Session Chair: Erika Anne Cornelia Neeft, COVRA, Netherlands, The | ||||||||||||||||||
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8:30am - 9:00am
ID: 144 / Plenary #2: 001 Porewater extraction techniques from clay-rich sedimentary rocks 1University of Bern, Switzerland; 2Hydroisotop GmbH, Schweitenkirchen, Germany; 3Intellisci, Willoughby on the Wolds, UK; 4University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; 5Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Toronto, Canada; 6Nuclear Waste Services, Didcot, UK; 7Nagra, Wettingen, Switzerland
9:00am - 9:20am
ID: 426 / Plenary #2: 002 Elucidating the fate of hydrogen by means of deuterium gas injections: an in-situ experiment in Opalinus Clay 1Andra, France; 2BGR, Germany; 3Hydroisotop GmbH, Germany; 4Solexperts AG, Switzerland
9:20am - 9:40am
ID: 231 / Plenary #2: 003 Effect of nitrate on in situ Se(VI) reduction in Opalinus Clay 1SCK CEN, Belgium; 2BRGM, France
9:40am - 10:00am
ID: 147 / Plenary #2: 004 High-resolution, integrated, chemically consistent sorption and diffusion data for radionuclide transport models: Examples from Switzerland for site characterisation 1Nagra, Switzerland; 2PSI Switzerland; 3CWL Solutions, Switzerland
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Plenary #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"
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10:30am - 11:00am
Invited Keynote ID: 458 / Plenary #3: 001 Understanding bentonite buffer under high temperature: modeling and tests Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America
11:00am - 11:20am
ID: 342 / Plenary #3: 002 Clays at elevated temperature – key results of EURAD HITEC WP 1VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Espoo, Finland; 2University of Lorraine, Nancy, France; 3CTU in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
11:20am - 11:40am
ID: 223 / Plenary #3: 003 Smectite alteration in ABM bentonites? New insights from layer charge measurements 1Institute of Geological Sciences, PAS, Poland; 2Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany; 3State Authority of Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG), Hannover, Germany
11:40am - 12:00pm
ID: 137 / Plenary #3: 004 Heating load increase after 8 years of heating and related THM processes observed in the Full-Scale Emplacement (FE) experiment at Mont Terri 1Nagra, Switzerland; 2Fracture Systems Ltd.
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| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | 2 min poster presentation #2 Location: Eilenriedehalle B | ||||||||||||||||||
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12:00pm - 12:02pm
2 min poster ID: 2243 Unravelling the depositional model of the Opalinus Clay using grain-size variability 1Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; 2Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; 3Nagra (National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste), Wettingen, Switzerland; 4Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
12:02pm - 12:04pm
2 min poster ID: 2385 3D Hydro-Mechanical modelling to support the design of the REG experiment in the Callovo-Oxfordian Claystone 1University of Liège, Belgium; 2Andra, France
12:04pm - 12:06pm
2 min poster ID: 2245 Differentiation of fractures and rock mass deformation in clay rocks by Machine Learning 1WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF; 2Climate Change, Extremes and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research Centre CERC; 3Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo)
12:06pm - 12:08pm
2 min poster ID: 2283 Mechanochemical activation of synthetic Na-n-micas – applications in retention of high-level radioactive waste 1QUIPRE Department, University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, 46, 39005, Santander, Spain.; 2Nanomedicine Group, IDIVAL, Avda. Cardenal Herrera Oria s/n, 39011, Santander, Spain.; 3CITIMAC Department, Universidad de Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, 48, 39005, Santander, Spain.
12:08pm - 12:10pm
2 min poster ID: 2318 Development of a separation method for Am-, Sr-, Pu- and U-isotopes in concrete using extraction chromatography AGES- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria
12:10pm - 12:12pm
2 min poster ID: 2382 Neptunium migration in Opalinus Clay - one experiment with multiple numerical geochemical solutions 1GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Fluid Systems Modelling, Potsdam, Germany; 2Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE), Peine, Germany; 3Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf e.V., Institute of Resource Ecology, Dresden, Germany; 4Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Department of Chemistry, Mainz, Germany; 5University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
12:12pm - 12:14pm
2 min poster ID: 2138 Harnessing microbial processes consuming hydrogen in radioac-tive waste repositories 1École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Environmental Microbiology Labo-ratory, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; 2National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste CH-5430, Wettingen, Switzerland
12:14pm - 12:16pm
2 min poster ID: 2233 Current status of the in-situ interaction experiment at the Bukov URF 1Radioactive Waste Repository Authority - SÚRAO, Czech Republic; 2Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
12:16pm - 12:18pm
2 min poster ID: 2341 3D Modelling of Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Fractured Opalinus Clay Shale 1Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 2Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), Mont Terri URL, St-Ursanne, Switzerland
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| Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024 | |||||||
| 8:30am - 10:00am | Plenary #4: Gas Location: Eilenriedehalle B Session Chair: Maarten Van Geet, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium Session Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom | ||||||
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8:30am - 9:00am
ID: 201 / Plenary #4: 001 EURAD-GAS, a step forward in understanding gas transport in clay-ey materials 1ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium; 2ULiège, Belgium; 3IRSN, France; 4BGS, UK; 5SCK CEN, Belgium; 6UFZ, Germany; 7NAGRA, Switzerland; 8Nuclear Waste Services, UK; 9Andra, France; 10Université Grenoble-Alpes, France
9:00am - 9:20am
ID: 167 / Plenary #4: 002 Ten years of laboratory gas testing in Boom Clay at the UPC/CIMNE Geotechnical Laboratory 1International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Spain; 2Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain; 3Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (ONDRAF/NIRAS), Belgium
9:20am - 9:40am
ID: 366 / Plenary #4: 003 Advective gas migration in Opalinus Clay at the Mont Terri URL 1British Geological Survey, United Kingdom; 2Solexperts AG, Mönchaltorf, Switzerland; 3ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland; 4Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI), Brugg, Switzerland; 5Now at Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
9:40am - 10:00am
ID: 314 / Plenary #4: 004 Molecular scale understanding of gas transport in clays 1Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland; 2University of Berne, Switzerland
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Plenary #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" | ||||||
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10:30am - 11:00am
Invited Keynote ID: 457 / Plenary #5: 001 Competence building in the frame of radioactive waste management: challenges and expectations SCK CEN, Belgian Nuclear Research Center, Belgium
11:00am - 11:20am
ID: 330 / Plenary #5: 002 High performance reactive transport model for cement-claystone interface simulations 1Laboratory for Waste Management, Paul Scherrer Institute; 2University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences
11:20am - 11:40am
ID: 392 / Plenary #5: 003 Hydro-chemo-mechanical and transport coupled phenomenon to explain overpressure in Callovo-Oxfordien clay formation 1Andra, France; 2BRGM, France; 3CNRS, France
11:40am - 12:00pm
ID: 210 / Plenary #5: 004 Towards site specific R&D to underpin the management of gas generation in a UK Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) 1Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom; 2Jacobs, United Kingdom
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| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | 2 min poster presentation #3 Location: Eilenriedehalle B | ||||||
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12:00pm - 12:02pm
2 min poster ID: 2319 Insights into the Interactions of Clay Minerals and Humic Acids: A Molecular Dynamics Study 1Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan; 2Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan; 3Horonobe Underground Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
12:02pm - 12:04pm
2 min poster ID: 2221 Tracking bentonite-water interactions by stable-H- and O-isotope exchange over a thermal gradient: First isotopic results from the Alternative Buffer Materials 2 and 5 bentonites 1Institute of Geological Sciences, PAS, Poland; 2The University of Western Ontario; 3Technical University of Munich 12:04pm - 12:06pm
2 min poster ID: 2139 Experimental Study on Evaluation Method of Apparent Erosion Rate Constant of Bentonite using X-ray CT Images 1Taiheiyo Consultant Co., Ltd., Japan; 2Tohoku University, Japan; 3Kajima Corporation, Japan
12:06pm - 12:08pm
2 min poster ID: 2373 The Hydro-mechanical Interaction between Different Tunnel Support Strategies and the Excavation Damaged Zone (EDZ) 1Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 2Department of Civil Engineering, Luxembourg University, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 12:08pm - 12:10pm
2 min poster ID: 2151 Gas transport along granite/bentonite interfaces CIEMAT, Spain
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| Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024 | |||||
| 8:30am - 10:00am | Plenary #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"
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8:30am - 9:00am
Invited Keynote ID: 461 / Plenary #6: 001 KONRAD REPOSITORY - GROUND-CONTROL IN CHALLENGING CLAY STRATA Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, Germany
9:00am - 9:20am
ID: 228 / Plenary #6: 002 Evaluating the Performance of the Composite Seals at Canada's Underground Research Laboratory (2008-2023) 1Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Canada; 2Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Canada
9:20am - 9:40am
ID: 206 / Plenary #6: 003 A vertical Sandwich shaft sealing system at the Mont Terri rock laboratory 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; 2Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH, Germany; 3TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany; 4Bundesamt für Landestopografie (swisstopo), Switzerland; 5Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Germany; 6Ingenieur-Gesellschaft für Sensorik in der Umwelttechnik mbH (ISU), Germany; 7Ingenieurpartnerschaft für Bergbau, Wasser und Deponietechnik (IBeWa), Germany; 8Institut für Gebirgsmechanik (IfG), Germany; 9Stephan Schmidt Gruppe, Germany; 10Empresa nacional de residuos radiactivos (Enresa), Spain; 11Amphos 21, Spain; 12Eidgenössisches Nuklearsicherheitsinspektorat (ENSI), Switzerland
9:40am - 10:00am
ID: 432 / Plenary #6: 004 Contribution of Meuse / Haute-Marne URL to HLW cell design, construction methodology and phenomenological behavior knowledge andra, France
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| 10:30am - 11:40am | Plenary #7: Machine learning Location: Eilenriedehalle B Session Chair: Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany Session Chair: Stéphan Schumacher, Andra, France | ||||
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10:30am - 11:00am
ID: 399 / Plenary #7: 001 Developpement and improvement of numerical methods and tools for modelling coupled process: Lessons learnt during EURAD joint programing initiative 1BRGM, France; 2Andra, France; 3Inria, France; 4UFZ, Germany; 5PSI, Switzerland; 6Ts Enercon, Hungary; 7SURAO, Czech republic
11:00am - 11:20am
ID: 224 / Plenary #7: 002 Physics-Based and Data-Driven Digital Twins for 3D-Temperature Evolution in the Near-field of the FE Tunnel at Mont Terri PSI, Switzerland
11:20am - 11:40am
ID: 362 / Plenary #7: 003 Advancing Pore Segmentation in Opalinus Clay: A Machine Learning Ensemble with Probability Estimation 1Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover; 2Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University, Hannover
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| 11:40am - 12:30pm | Closing 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 | ||||
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