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NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC)
Provisional Agenda of the 7th Meeting of the Salt Club
4 September 2017; Nieuwdorp, The Netherlands
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7th
Meeting of Salt Club
Provisional Agenda
COVRA, Netherlands, 4 September 2017
Practical Details:
Meeting Start: 9:30, Monday, 4 September 2017
Meeting End: 16:50, Monday, 4 September 2017
Location: COVRA, Spanjeweg 1 4455 TW Nieuwdorp, Netherlands
The nature of each agenda item is indicated as follows:
I : For information
D : For decision
Welcome Coffee
Opening Remarks
9:30 1.1 I Welcome Note from Chair
Jörg Mönig, GRS GmbH, Salt Club Chair
COVRA (TBC)
10min
Formal Aspects
9:40 2.1 D Objectives of the 7th
Salt Club Plenary meeting (SC-7) and
approval of proposed agenda
Jörg Mönig (Chair) / NEA secretariat
10min
9:50 2.2 D Approval of the Summary Record of SC-6
Jörg Mönig (Chair) / NEA secretariat
10min
10:00 2.3 D Election/Confirmation of Chair, Vice Chair and Steering
Group
Jörg Mönig (Chair)/ NEA secretariat
10min
10:10 2.4 I NEA/RWMC activities
NEA Secretariat
- RWMC/IGSC/Clay Club / Crystalline Club / FSC
initiatives
15min + 5min
QA
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Update of Salt Club Activities
10:30 3.1 I Geochemistry / TDB Update: An-borate, iron, An-organics
Marcus Altmaier, KIT-INE
15min + 5min
QA
10:50 3.2 I Microbial Salt Club Activity
Donald T. Reed on behalf of Julie Swanson, LANL
15min + 5min
QA
11:10 3.3 I Crushed Salt as an Important Element of Technical Barriers
in an HLW-Repository
N. Müller-Hoeppe, DBETec
15min + 5min
QA
11:30 3.4 I FEP Catalogue, Database, and Salt Knowledge Archive
Geoff Freeze, SNL / Jens Wolf, GRS
25min + 5min
QA
12:00 Lunch (60 min)
13:00 Topical Session
-Consolidation of Crushed Salt and its relevance for the Safety Case-
Topical Session Chair: Wilhelm Bollingerfehr, DBE TECHNOLOGY
Aims:
Summarize the state of the art on the understanding of the processes that govern
the crushed salt consolidation and determine the relevance of crushed salt as
geotechnical barrier in a repository for radioactive waste
Display in detail the experiences gained by laboratory tests and in-situ tests on
crushed salt
Discuss and compile the R&D-needs to accomplish the scientific basis for crushed
salt as an important component of a technical barrier in a HLW repository
13:00 4.1 I
Crushed salt as important element of technical barriers in a
HLW-repository (operating conditions of crushed salt
backfill and their relevance for repository safety)
Nina Müller-Hoeppe, DBE TECHNOLOGY GmbH
30min
13:30 4.2 I
Material behaviour: Experiences gained in in-situ tests on
crushed salt (in particular investigations on wetted crushed
salt); a comparison of the mechanical behaviour of dry and
wetted crushed salt
Francis Hansen and/or Edward Mattheo, Sandia Labs
30min
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14:00 4.3 I
Material behaviour: “Fluid Percolation in Salt Rocks”
W. Minkley, D. Brückner, and C. Lüdeling, IfG-Leipzig
30min
14:30 4.4 I
Material models: State of the art in describing the TMH-
behaviour of crushed salt including an analysis of the
challenges which remain and an outlook on the need of
further R&D activities.
Klaus Wieczorek, GRS Braunschweig
30min
15:00 4.5 I
General Discussion
All
20min
15:20 4.6 I
Concluding Remarks
Topical Session Chair
10min
15:30 Break (30min)
Other Businesses
16:00 5.1 I International Developments
- Outcomes of the ABC-Salt V workshop (TBC)
Donald T. Reed, LANL
15min + 5min
QA
16:20 5.2 I Others 10min
Closing Summary
16:30 6.1 I Chairperson’s meeting summary
Jörg Mönig (Chair), NEA secretariat
10min
16:40 6.2 D Next Meeting
Meeting format
Date and location (open to discussion)
Jörg Mönig (Chair), NEA secretariat
10min
16:50 Meeting adjourn