INTERA’s European team will be attending the Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on the Safety of Nuclear Disposal Practices on 13-15th September 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The Symposium is organized by the German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE). INTERA's Chao Li, Jean Croisé, Amélie Dausse, and Dominik Zbinden, are presenting a selection of work results related to the development of safe geological disposal of long-lived nuclear waste in collaboration with the national rad-waste agencies Nagra (Switzerland) and Andra (France). A summary of INTERA’s presentations is provided below.
Thursday, September 14
Session 10 – Geosciences Behind Regulatory, Technical and Social Challenges: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Speaker: Chao Li
16:20 – 16:40: Model-based performance assessment of repository induced effects: contribution to the site-selection process in Switzerland
Session 06 – Surface Based Site Investigation: Collecting a Reliable Data Base for Decision Making
Speaker: Jean Croisé
17:40 – 18:20: Determination of the in-situ hydraulic parameters of the Callovo-Oxfordian Clay rock in a long-term hydraulic interference testing at ANDRA’s CMHM Underground Research Laboratory
Friday, September 15
Session 12 – Repository Design, Construction and Operation: Practicalities, Geotechnics, Barrier Performance
Speaker: Amélie Dausse
11:00 – 11:20: State of the art of hydraulic packer testing in clay rocks in the Swiss national radioactive waste disposal program
Session 09 – Recent Advances in Computational Methods and Process Coupling (THMCB)
Speaker: Dominik Zbinden
13:00 – 13:20: Multi-phase flow modelling at the component level for the Swiss deep geo-logical repository
For more info on the program, please visit the website BASE - Research - safeND 2023: The second BASE research symposium (bund.de) or scan :
