Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Sunday, 24/Nov/2024
  List of all Posters
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Display list by clicking here
The posters are on display every day! But they will be presented in three exhibition sessions. See below in the agenda for presenter slots "Poster exhibition..." one poster exhibition session on each conference day.

Staff will support presenters in attaching their posters to the boards on Sunday (during registration/icebreaker) and Monday morning. Posters not removed by Thursday end of lunch will be disposed of.
Display list by clicking here
3:00pm
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6:00pm
Scientific support programme: Mini-lectures
Location: Blauer Saal
6:00pm
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8:00pm
Icebreaker + Registration
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Monday, 25/Nov/2024
8:30am
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10:00am
Registration
10:00am
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10:30am
Opening ceremony
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
Chair: Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Germany
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"
12:00pm
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm
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2:30pm
Poster exhibition #1
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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
PS #2: Bentonite stability
Location: Bonatz Saal
Chair: Lucie Hausmannova, SÚRAO, Czech Republic
Chair: Patrik Sellin, SKB, Sweden
PS #3: Radionuclide diffusion and sorption
Location: Blauer Saal
Chair: Erika Anne Cornelia Neeft, COVRA, Netherlands, The
Chair: Thorsten Schäfer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
3:50pm
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4:20pm
Coffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
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
PS #5: Geological setting and clay host rock
Location: Bonatz Saal
Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
Chair: Amade Halasz, PURAM, Hungary
PS #6: Clay-iron/-cement interaction
Location: Blauer Saal
Chair: Reiner Dohrmann, LBEG, Germany
Chair: Mika Olavi Niskanen, Posiva Oy, Finland
6:00pm
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8:00pm
Networking event / Get-together
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
Date: Tuesday, 26/Nov/2024
8:00am
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8:30am
Registration
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
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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"
12:00pm
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm
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2:30pm
Poster exhibition #2
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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
PS #8: THM heater experiments
Location: Bonatz Saal
Chair: Patrik Sellin, SKB, Sweden
Chair: Weimin YE, Tongji University, China, People's Republic of
PS #9: THM modelling
Location: Blauer Saal
Chair: Wolfram Rühaak, BGE Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Germany
Chair: Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany
3:50pm
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4:20pm
Coffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
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
PS #11: THM bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
Chair: Weimin YE, Tongji University, China, People's Republic of
Chair: María Victoria Villar, CIEMAT, Spain
PS #12: Performance and uncertainty assessment
Location: Blauer Saal
Chair: Xavier Sillen, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium
Chair: Wolfram Rühaak, BGE Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Germany
6:00pm
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11:59pm
Conference dinner
Location: Hangar No. 5
Date: Wednesday, 27/Nov/2024
8:00am
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8:30am
Registration
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
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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"
12:00pm
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12:30pm
2 min poster presentation #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
1:30pm
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2:30pm
Poster exhibition #3
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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
PS #14: Colloid formation from bentonite
Location: Bonatz Saal
Chair: Mika Olavi Niskanen, Posiva Oy, Finland
Chair: Christophe Tournassat, Universtité d'Orléans (France) / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), France
PS #15: Numerical tools for HMC processes
Location: Blauer Saal
Chair: María Victoria Villar, CIEMAT, Spain
Chair: Lucie Hausmannova, SÚRAO, Czech Republic
3:50pm
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4:20pm
Coffee Break
Location: In front of the lecture halls
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
PS #17: Repository engineering
Location: Bonatz Saal
Chair: Shigeru Kubota, Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, Japan
Chair: Amade Halasz, PURAM, Hungary
PS #18: Gas related processes
Location: Blauer Saal
Chair: Simon Norris, Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom
Chair: Irina Gaus, Nagra, Switzerland
Date: Thursday, 28/Nov/2024
8:00am
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8:30am
Registration
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"
10:00am
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10:30am
Coffee Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
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
11:40am
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12:30pm
Closing ceremony (awards)
Location: Eilenriedehalle B
Chair: Astrid Göbel, BGE, Germany
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
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Lunch Break
Location: Eilenriedehalle A
2:30pm
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5:30pm
Scientific support programme: workshops, seminars
Location: BGR
Date: Friday, 29/Nov/2024
6:00am
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3:00pm
Exc. Konrad: Excursion to DGR Konrad
Location: DGR Konrad
Exc. Morsleben: Excursion to DGR Morsleben
Location: DGR Morsleben
9:00am
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12:30pm
Scientific support programme: technical visits
Location: BGR

 
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