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Session Overview
Location: Roter Saal
Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024
2:30pm
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3:50pm
PS #1: EDZ related processes
Location: Roter Saal
Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
Chair: Christophe Nussbaum, swisstopo, Switzerland
 
2:30pm - 2:50pm

Design of HLW emplacement drifts in the Swiss deep geological repository in squeezing conditions

Julia Leuthold, Linard Cantieni, Peter Kirchhofer



2:50pm - 3:10pm

Influence of geological and geotechnical boundary conditions on the host rock behavior – experiences from the twin niches in Mont Terri

Gesa Ziefle, Tuanny Cajuhi, Stephan Costabel, Antoine Fourriere, Markus Furche, Jana Gerowski, Bastian Graupner, Jürgen Hesser, David Jaeggi, Kyra Jantschik, Tilo Kneuker, Olaf Kolditz, Herbert Kunz, Jobst Maßmann, Andreas Möri, Christian Ostertag-Henning, Marc Wengler



3:10pm - 3:30pm

Non-isothermal behavior of excavation damaged zone around deep radioactive waste disposal

Saeed Tourchi, Arash Lavasan, Antonio Gens



3:30pm - 3:50pm

Pore-water pressure response and permeability evolution around excavations in claystone beyond the EDZ

Álvaro D. Suárez, Miguel A. Mánica, Eric Simo, Sandra E. Perales, Thomas Nagel

4:20pm
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6:00pm
PS #4: Repository projects and programmes
Location: Roter Saal
Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Chair: Shigeru Kubota, Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, Japan
 
4:20pm - 4:40pm

BGR research on claystone in the Mont Terri rock laboratory

Jürgen Hesser, Gesa Ziefle



4:40pm - 5:00pm

Nagra’s post-closure safety case for the general license application

Olivier X Leupin, Ashley Brown, Valentyn Bykov, Nikitas Diomidis, Typhaine Guillemot, Priska Hunkeler, Hoda Javanmard, Thomas Kämpfer, Xiaoshuo Li, Paul Marschall, Lukas Martin, Alexandros Papafotiou, Martin Schoenball, Paul Smith, Raphael Wüst



5:00pm - 5:20pm

Demonstration testing program on backfill system for the post-closure phase of the French radioactive waste disposal

Youssef Fawaz, Rémi de La Vaissière, Jean Talandier, Jad Zghondi, Gilles Armand



5:20pm - 5:40pm

Design of concrete-based segmental liners for a potential German HLW/SF repository in claystone

Philipp Herold, Ajmal Gafoor, Eric Simo, David Seidel, Andreas Hucke, Sven Bock, Benedikt Wöhrl, Axel Studeny



5:40pm - 6:00pm

Excavation of the Konrad 2 shaft landing station in a clay and marl claystone: numerical modelling of excavation and support measures

Mirko Polster, Lothar te Kamp, Michael Breustedt, Stephan Gehne

Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024
2:30pm
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3:50pm
PS #7: Mineralogical and hydrogeochemical characteristics
Location: Roter Saal
Chair: Christophe Tournassat, Universtité d'Orléans (France) / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), France
Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
 
2:30pm - 2:50pm

Which porosity domains in clay-rich rocks are sampled by squeezing and advective displacement tests?

Mirjam Kiczka, Martin Mazurek, Andreas Jenni, Carmen Zwahlen, Lukas Aschwanden, Urs Mäder, Daniel Traber



2:50pm - 3:10pm

Oxygen isotope exchange between groundwater and calcite unravels million-year long hydrogeochemical evolution of a deep sedimentary aquifer

Christoph Wanner, Lukas Aschwanden, Mirjam Kiczka, Daniel Traber



3:10pm - 3:30pm

Ab initio MD modelling of Ni2+, Zn2+, and Lu3+ cation adsorption on saponite edge surfaces

Vasyl Stotskyi, Fulvio Di Lorenzo, Maria Marques Fernandes, Matthias Krack, Andreas C. Scheinost, Martine Lanson, Bruno Lanson, Sergey V. Churakov



3:30pm - 3:50pm

A XAS study on the effect of ionizing radiation on the redox state of the structural iron in Bentonite clay

Nathan Lavauzelle, Mats Jonsson, Michael Holmboe

4:20pm
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6:00pm
PS #10: Geochemistry and fluid migration
Location: Roter Saal
Chair: Christophe Tournassat, Universtité d'Orléans (France) / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), France
Chair: Juan Carlos Mayor, Enresa, Spain
 
4:20pm - 4:40pm

Profiles of natural tracers in porewater of a Mesozoic rock sequence in northern Switzerland

Thomas Gimmi, Paul Wersin, Lukas Aschwanden, Jin Ma, H. Niklaus Waber, Martin Mazurek, Carmen Zwahlen, Christoph Wanner, Daniel Traber



4:40pm - 5:00pm

Quantifying the evolution and transport of helium in porewater across the Mesozoic sedimentary sequence in northern Switzerland

Daniel Rufer, Jin Ma, Christoph Wanner, H. Niklaus Waber, Daniel Traber



5:00pm - 5:20pm

Transport characteristics and barrier quality of a 134 m thick Opalinus Clay formation in southern Germany obtained from its porewater noble gas profile

Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Samuel Niedermann, Karsten Osenbrück, Hua Shao, Daniel Rufer, Thomas Mann



5:20pm - 5:40pm

Multiscale experimental comparison of water diffusion by neutron tomography in a porous clay medium partially water-saturated

Lucas Désert, Sébastien Savoye, Emmanuel Tertre, Alessandro Tengattini, Arnaud Mazurier, Baptiste Dazas, Laurent Michot, Pierre Henocq, Christophe Tournassat, Eric Ferrage



5:40pm - 6:00pm

Streamlined modelling approach for transport of natural organic matter linked transport of radionuclides in Boom Clay

Norbert Maes, Joan Govaerts, Stéphane Brassinnes

Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024
2:30pm
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3:50pm
PS #13: HM Processes
Location: Roter Saal
Chair: Wiebke Baille, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Chair: Xavier Sillen, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
 
2:30pm - 2:50pm

Hydraulic parameter estimations from borehole testing: evaluating the impact of hydro-mechanical processes in low-permeability clay formations

Luca Urpi, Rainer Schwarz, Armin Pechstein



2:50pm - 3:10pm

A physically motivated model concept for the retention behaviour of swelling clayey media in the context of coupled THM simulations

Vinay Kumar, Steffen Besse, Thomas Nagel



3:10pm - 3:30pm

Changes in swelling pressure distribution on radially swollen bentonite buffer surfaces

Shinya Tachibana, Tomohide Takeyama, Atsushi Iizuka, Daisuke Hayashi, Hirohito Kikuchi, Ryo Yasuda



3:30pm - 3:50pm

Hydro-mechanical behaviour and microstructural evolution of recompacted Opalinus Clay as backfilling material

Alessio Ferrari, Qazim Llabjani, Olivier Leupin, Lyesse Laloui

4:20pm
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6:00pm
PS #16: (T)HM experiments
Location: Roter Saal
Chair: Patrik Sellin, SKB, Sweden
Chair: Wiebke Baille, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
 
4:20pm - 4:40pm

Novel insights into shales and claystones behaviour: results from recent testing campaigns

Eleonora Crisci, Silvio Giger



4:40pm - 5:00pm

Innovative use of distributed fibre optics for assessing the strain field evolution of Opalinus Clay during gas invasion

Qazim Llabjani, Alessio Ferrari, Paul Marschall, Lyesse Laloui



5:00pm - 5:20pm

Exploring the thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of a plastic deep clayey formation under oedometer conditions

Núria Sau, Enrique Romero, Hervé Van Baelen



5:20pm - 5:40pm

Hydro-mechanical behaviour of Boom Clay investigated through high capacity consolidated drained triaxial tests.

Sophie De Kock, Bertrand François, Frédéric Collin, Arnaud Dizier, Séverine Levasseur



5:40pm - 6:00pm

Thermal effects on the drained triaxial compressive and tensile strengths of a transversely isotropic claystone

Chuanrui Wang, Christophe de Lesquen, Minh-Ngoc Vu, Jean Talandier, Jianfu Shao


 
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