Conference Agenda

8:30am - 9:00am
ID: 201 / Plenary #4: 001

EURAD-GAS, a step forward in understanding gas transport in clay-ey materials

Séverine Levasseur¹, Xavier Sillen¹, Frédéric Collin², Magdalena Dymitrowska³, Jon Harrington⁴, Elke Jacops⁵, Olaf Kolditz⁶, Paul Marschall⁷, Simon Norris⁸, Jean Talandier⁹, Laurent Truche¹⁰, Jacques Wendling⁹

¹ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium; ²ULiège, Belgium; ³IRSN, France; ⁴BGS, UK; ⁵SCK CEN, Belgium; ⁶UFZ, Germany; ⁷NAGRA, Switzerland; ⁸Nuclear Waste Services, UK; ⁹Andra, France; ¹⁰Université Grenoble-Alpes, France

9:00am - 9:20am
ID: 167 / Plenary #4: 002

Ten years of laboratory gas testing in Boom Clay at the UPC/CIMNE Geotechnical Laboratory

Laura Gonzalez-Blanco^1,2, Enrique Romero^2,1, Séverine Levasseur³

¹International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), Spain; ²Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain; ³Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (ONDRAF/NIRAS), Belgium

9:20am - 9:40am
ID: 366 / Plenary #4: 003

Advective gas migration in Opalinus Clay at the Mont Terri URL

Robert Cuss¹, Jocelyn Gisiger², Antonio Rinaldi³, Manuel Sentis⁴, Andrew Wiseall⁵, Jon Harrington¹

¹British Geological Survey, United Kingdom; ²Solexperts AG, Mönchaltorf, Switzerland; ³ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland; ⁴Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI), Brugg, Switzerland; ⁵Now at Nuclear Waste Services, United Kingdom

9:40am - 10:00am
ID: 314 / Plenary #4: 004

Molecular scale understanding of gas transport in clays

Sergey Churakov^1,2, Jerry Owusu^1,2, Athanasios Mokos¹, Konstantinos Karalis², Nikolaos Prasianakis¹

¹Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland; ²University of Berne, Switzerland