Conference Agenda

Unravelling the depositional model of the Opalinus Clay using grain-size variability

Géraldine Nicole Zimmerli¹, Stephan Wohlwend², Gaudenz Deplazes³, Thomas Mann⁴, Anneleen Foubert¹

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

3D Hydro-Mechanical modelling to support the design of the REG experiment in the Callovo-Oxfordian Claystone

Gilles Corman¹, Abhishek Rawat¹, Jean Talandier², Rémi de La Vaissiere², Youssef Fawaz², Frédéric Collin¹

¹University of Liège, Belgium; ²Andra, France

Differentiation of fractures and rock mass deformation in clay rocks by Machine Learning

Rushan Wang^1,2, Andrea Manconi^1,2, Martin Ziegler³

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)

Mechanochemical activation of synthetic Na-n-micas – applications in retention of high-level radioactive waste

Aníbal López-Marín¹, Rosa Martín-Rodríguez^1,2, Fernando Aguado^2,3, Ana C. Perdigón^1,2

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.

Development of a separation method for Am-, Sr-, Pu- and U-isotopes in concrete using extraction chromatography

Gloria Steckholzer, Claudia Landstetter, Krystle Elbers, Rainer Kadan

AGES- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria

Neptunium migration in Opalinus Clay - one experiment with multiple numerical geochemical solutions

Theresa Hennig¹, Madlen Stockmann², Claudia Joseph², Vinzenz Brendler³, Tobias Reich⁴, Michael Kühn^1,5

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

Harnessing microbial processes consuming hydrogen in radioac-tive waste repositories

Camille Rolland¹, Olivier Leupin², Rizlan Bernier-Latmani¹

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

Current status of the in-situ interaction experiment at the Bukov URF

Anna Golubko¹, Jan Smutek¹, Jiří Svoboda²

¹Radioactive Waste Repository Authority - SÚRAO, Czech Republic; ²Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

3D Modelling of Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Fractured Opalinus Clay Shale

Muhammad Raharsya Andiva¹, Qinghua Lei¹, Martin Ziegler²

¹Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ²Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), Mont Terri URL, St-Ursanne, Switzerland