Technical Program
The three day conference is being organized on the basis of a mix of invited speakers (primarily from the ESDRED Project and from New Member States) and this international "Call for Papers". The activities will terminate with an open meeting with students from the university in the afternoon of the last day.
Main Themes for Papers
1- Disposal Unit Concepts
- Disposal unit based on the use of a Super Container containing the engineered barrier (EBS) as well as the waste package: summary overview of design concepts including the rationale, the emplacement process, the sealing, the radioprotection and the reversibility.
- Disposal unit based on the use of an EBS emplaced before or after the waste package: summary overview of design concepts including the rationale, the emplacement process, the sealing, the radioprotection and the reversibility.
- Horizontal disposal unit without EBS: summary overview of design concepts including the rationale, the emplacement process, the sealing, the radioprotection and the reversibility.
- Vertical disposal unit without EBS: summary overview of design concepts including the rationale, the emplacement process, the sealing, the radioprotection and the reversibility.
2- Operational Safety and Radioprotection
- Rationale and safety objectives in term of radioprotection during waste emplacement process
- Management of concurrent activities of construction and nuclear operations
- Design of shielding protection for waste emplacement process
- Remote operation and waste emplacement process
- Ultimate emergency system in case of failure during waste emplacement process
3- Full or Reduced Scale Demonstrations and /or Operating Experience in Existing Facilities, URL's or Surface Mock-ups
- Characterization of disposal unit and EBS
- Demonstration of disposal unit construction
- Demonstration of waste emplacement process
- Demonstration of waste retrieval
- Operational/URL experience related to disposal unit construction
- Operational/URL experience related to the waste emplacement process
Outline of the Program
Sunday, June 15
- Optional Field Trip to Josef Underground Educational Facility (see back side of Registration Form) (13:00-17:00)
- Registration (16:00-19:00)
- Icebreaker in lobby of CTU Civil Engineering Building (19:00)
Monday, June 16
- Registration (08:00-10:00)
- Opening Addresses
- Session 1 – Disposal Units in Clay
- First Poster Session
- Session 2 – Operational Safety & Radioprotection
Tuesday, June 17
- Registration (08:00-10:00)
- Session 3 – Engineered Barrier Systems
- Second Poster Session
- Conference Dinner
Wednesday, June 18
- Registration (08:00-10:00)
- Session 4 – Disposal Units in Granite
- Session 5 – Disposal Units in Salt, Tuff, Limestone
- Session 6 – Open Session with Students
Final Detailed Program
Sunday 15 June 08
| 16:00 | Registration until 19:00 |
| 19:00 | Ice Breaker (next to registration area) |
Monday 16 June 08
| 08:00 | Registration until 10:00 (also on Tuesday and Wednesday at same time) |
OPENING SESSION
Chair: Wolf K. SEIDLER
| 08:30 | Wolf K. SEIDLER, Conference Chairman, Andra, France |
| Zdenek BITTNAR, Honorary Conference Chairman, Dean Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU in Prague | |
| Ladislav PAZDERA, Chief of Department of Electroenergetics, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech Republic | |
| 09:00 | Support of Euratom framework programmes to research on radioactive waste disposal |
| Christophe DAVIES, European Commission, Belgium | |
| 09:30 | 01 - Radioactive Waste Management in the Czech Republic |
| Vitezslav DUDA, RAWRA, Czech Republic | |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 1 – DISPOSAL UNITS IN CLAYS
Chair: Louis LONDE
| 10:30 | 02 - Development and Demonstration of Prototype Transportation Equipment for Emplacing HL Vitrified Waste Canisters into Small Diameter Bored Horizontal Disposal Cells |
| Wolf K SEIDLER, Jean-Michel BOSGIRAUD, Louis LONDE, ANDRA, France | |
| 11:10 | 03 - The Swiss Concept for Disposal of Spent Fuel and Vitrified HLW |
| Thomas FRIES, Anne Claudel, Hanspeter Weber, Lawrence Johnson, Olivier Leupin, NAGRA, Switzerland | |
| 11:50 | 04 - Experimental programme to Demonstrate the viability of the Belgian Supercontainer concept for HLW |
| Hughes VAN HUMBEECK1, Wim BASTIAENS2, Chris DE BOCK1, Alain VAN COTTHEM3 | |
| 1ONDRAF/NIRAS, 2EIG EURIDICE, 3TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING, Belgium | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | First Poster Session |
SESSION 2 – OPERATIONAL SAFETY & RADIOPROTECTION
Chair: Norbert T. Rempe
| 14:30 | 05 - Operational Safety for a KBS-3H repository |
| Stig PETTERSSON, Erik THURNER, Bo HALVARSSON, SKB, Sweden | |
| 15:00 | 06 - Operational Safety and Radiation Protection Considerations in Designing a HLW repository in Germany |
| Wolfgang FILBERT1, Norman NIEHUES2, Matthias PÖHLER1, Monika KREIENMEYER1 | |
| 1DBE TECHNOLOGY GmbH, 2DBE GmbH, Germany | |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 | 07 - Operational Safety and radioprotection considerations when designing the ILW-LL Disposal Zone |
| S. VOINIS, A. ROULET, D. CLAUDEL, A. LESAVRE, ANDRA, France | |
| 16:30 | 08 - Practical and Safe Implementation of Disposal With Prefabricated EBS Modules |
| Hideki KAWAMURA1, Ian G. McKINLEY2 and Fiona B. NEALL3 | |
| 1Obayashi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; 2McKinley Consulting, Baden/Dättwil, Switzerland; 3Neall Consulting Ltd., Kendal, UK | |
| 17:00 | 09 - Integrated Safety Case Development for Deep Geological Repositories |
| Hideki KAWAMURA1, Ian G. McKINLEY2 | |
| 1Obayashi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; 2McKinley Consulting, Baden/Dättwil, Switzerland |
Tuesday 17 June 08
SESSION 3 – ENGINEERED BARRIER SYSTEMS
Co-Chair: Chris de BOCK, Jaroslav PACOVSKÝ
| 08:10 | 10 - From Bentonite Powder to Engineered Barrier Units: An Industrial Process |
| Claude GATABIN1, Jean-Luc GUYOT2, Serge RESNIKOW3, Jean-Michel BOSGIRAUD4, Louis LONDE4, Wolf SEIDLER4 | |
| 1CEA Saclay, 2SEGULA Ingénierie, 3MPC, 4ANDRA, France | |
| 08:50 | 11 - Full-Scale Demonstration of EBS Construction Technology (I) Block, Pellet and In-Situ Compaction method |
| Satohito TOGURI1, Hidekazu ASANO1, Hajime TAKAO2, Takeshi MATSUDA3, Kiyoshi AMEMIYA4 | |
| 1RWMC, 2JGC Corporation, 3Obayashi Corporation, 4Hazama Corporation, Japan | |
| 09:30 | 12 - Full-Scale Demonstration of EBS Construction Technology (II) Design, Manufacturing and Transportation of Pre-fabricated EBS Module (PEM) |
| Hidekazu ASANO1, Satohito TOGURI1, Yumiko IWATA2, Susumu KAWAKAMI2, Yuji NAGASAWA2, Takeshi YOSHIDA2 | |
| 1RWMC, 2IHI Corporation, Japan | |
| 10:10 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | 13 - Design and Emplacement of Bentonite Barriers |
| Matthias GRUNER1, Klaus RUMPHORST2 ,Peter SITZ1 | |
| 1TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 2K+S AG, Germany | |
| 11:10 | 14 - The Surface Mock-up KENTEX: On the Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviors in the Buffer of a Korean HLW Repository |
| Jae Owan LEE, Won Jin CHO, Jong Won CHOI, KAERI, Korea | |
| 11:50 | 15 - The EC/NEA Engineered Barrier System (EBS) Project |
| H. UMEKI1, E. FORINASH2, C. DAVIES3, D. BENNETT4, A. HOOPER5, A. VAN LUIK6, S. VOINIS7 | |
| 1Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, 3European Commission, DG-Research, 4TerraSalus Limited, 5UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, 6US Department of Energy, 7L'Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs (Andra) | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Second Poster Session |
| 14:30 | 16 - Experimental Evaluation of the Hydraulic Resistance of Compacted Bentonite/Boom Clay Interface |
| Anh-Minh TANG1, Juan Jorge MUNOZ1, Yu-Jun CUI1, Pierre DELAGE1, Xiang-Ling LI2 | |
| 1Institut Navier, Université Paris-Est, ENPC-CERMES, France, 2EURIDICE Group, Belgium | |
| 15:10 | 17 - Development of Non-Intrusive Monitoring Techniques - ESDRED & TEM Projects at Mont Terri and the Grimsel Test Site |
| B.BREEN1, M.JOHNSON1, B.FRIEG2, I.BLECHSCHMIDT2, E.MANUKYAN3, S.MARELLI3, H.R.MAURER3 | |
| 1Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, United Kingdom (NDA), 2National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Switzerland (Nagra), 3ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences (Switzerland), (ETH) | |
| 15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 16:10 | 18 - Implications of the use of Low-pH Cementitious Materials in High Activity Radioactive Waste Repositories |
| J.L. GARCIA CALVO, M.C. ALONSO, L. FERNANDEZ LUCO, A. HIDALGO1, M. SANCHEZ1, IETcc-CSIC, Spain | |
| 16:50 | 19 - Full Scale Demonstration of Shotcrete Sealing Plug under Realistic Working Conditions |
| I. BARCENA, J. L. GARCIA-SINERIZ, AITEMIN (Spain) | |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
Wednesday 18 June 08
SESSION 4 – DISPOSAL UNITS IN GRANITE
Chair: Christer SVEMAR
| 08:10 | 20 - Final Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel in Granite - The KBS-3V Concept in Sweden and Finland |
| Stig PETTERSSON, Bengt LÖNNERBERG, SKB, Sweden | |
| 08:50 | 21 - Application of the Air/Water Cushion Technology for handling of heavy waste packages in Sweden and France |
| Stig PETTERSSON, Erik THURNER, SKB, Sweden | |
| 09:30 | 22 - Development of Excavation Technologies at the Canadian URL |
| Gregory W. KUZYK, Jason MARTINO, AECL, Canada | |
| 10:10 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 5 – DISPOSAL UNITS IN SALT, TUFF & LIMESTONE
Chair: Enrique BIURRUN
| 10:30 | 23 - Emplacement Technology for the Direct Disposal of Spent Fuel into Deep Vertical Boreholes |
| Wilhelm BOLLINGERFEHR, Jobst WEHRMANN, Wolfgang FILBERT, DBE TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Germany | |
| 11:10 | 24 - Nine+Years of Disposal Experience at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) |
| Norbert T. REMPE, Roger A. NELSON, WIPP, USA | |
| 11:50 | 25 - Emplacement Feasibility of a Multi-tier, Expanded Capacity Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada USA |
| Michael APTED1, John KESSLER2, Charles FAIRHURST3 | |
| 1Monitor Scientific LLC, 2Electric Power Research Institute, 3Itasca Consulting Group Inc., USA | |
| 12:30 | 26 - Proposed Deep Geologic Repository for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste at the Bruce Site, Tiverton, Ontario |
| R.J. HEYSTEE, Ontario Power Generation, Canada | |
| 13:10 | Conclusion of the Conference - Wolf K Seidler, ANDRA France |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| Third Poster Session | |
| END OF PRESENTATIONS |
SESSION 6 (Students)
Chair: Wernt BREWITZ
| 14:30 | Open Student Session (until approx 16:30) |
List of Accepted Posters
| # | Poster title | Author | Company |
1 |
Introduction to ESDRED | BOSGIRAUD Jean-Michel, SEIDLER Wolf |
Andra, France |
2 |
Selfsealing Barriers of Clay/Mineral Mixtures - The SB Project at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory | Tilmann ROTHFUCHS, Rüdiger MIEHE, Chun-Liang ZHANG | GRS, Germany |
3 |
Emplacement Tests with granular bentonite | WEBER Hanspeter | NAGRA, Switzerland |
4 |
Strategies, Regulations and Repository Concept of Ukrainian Deep Geologic Repository | ZLOBENKO Borys | Institute of Environmental Geochemistry NAS and MES of Ukraine |
5 |
LPH Shotcrete for Rock Support on Opalinus Clay: Spraying Tests in the Hagerbach Test Gallery | FRIES Thomas, WEBER H.P, WETZIG V. |
Nagra, Switzerland Test Gallery Hagerbach Ltd., Switzerland |
6 |
Cavern disposal concepts for HLW/SF: assuring operational practicality and safety with maximum programme flexibility | Ian Mc KINLEY, Michael APTED, Hiroyuki UMEKI, Hideki KAWAMURA |
McKinley Consulting, Baden/Dättwil, Switzerland Monitor Scientific, Denver, USA JAEA, Tokyo, Japan Obayashi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan |
7 |
Selection and THM characterisation of the Buffer Material | Claude GATABIN, G. TOUZE, C. IMBERT, W. GUILLOT, P. BILLAUD |
CEA Saclay, Laboratory on Concrete and Clay Behaviour (LECBA), France |
8 |
Design, Fabrication, Assembly, Handling and Packaging of Buffer Rings | Claude GATABIN, J-L. GUYOT, S. RESNIKOW |
CEA Saclay, Laboratory on Concrete and Clay Behaviour (LECBA), France SEGULA Ingenierie, France MPC, France |
9 |
Calculation of Maximum Release Rates in Alternative Design Cases for the Engineered Barrier System (EBS) by used Amber code | MALEKI Asghar, SKACHIK M.A. |
Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russia |
10 |
The KBS-3H Concept – Horizontal Disposal | THURNER Erik, PETTERSSON Stig | SKB, Sweden |
11 |
Performance assessment studies evaluate the long-term safety of the disposal system of radioactive waste from Cernavoda NPP | BUJOREANU Dan, M. OLTEANU, Liliana BUJOREANU |
Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Romania |
12 |
Criticality and Dose Rate Modelling for Copper Disposal Canister with Spent RBMK-1500 Nuclear Fuel | Arturas SMAIZYS, Povilas POSKAS, Ernestas NARKUNAS |
Lithuanian Energy Institute, Nuclear Engineering Laboratory, Lithuania |
13 |
Estimating the Dual Permeability Parameters of the Fractured Environment of the Richard Nuclear Waste Repository (RAWRA, Czech Republic) | KURÁŽ Michal | Faculty of Civil Engineering, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic |
14 |
Development of Non-intrusive Monitoring Techniques - ESDRED & TEM Projects at Mont Terri and the Grimsel Test Site | Brendan BREEN, Mark JOHNSON, Bernd FRIEG, Ingo BLECHSCHMIDT, E. MANYUKAN, S. MARELLI, H.R. MAURER |
NDA, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, United Kingdom Nagra, National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Switzerland ETH, Zürich Department of Earth Sciences, Switzerland |