Workshop 14
Radioactive Waste Management Monday, June 8th|
Convenors
- Christian Strand (Shearwater)
- Dr. Carlo Dietl (Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE))
- Dr. Christian Derer (Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (BGE))
- David Eastwell (Nuclear Waste Services (NWS))
- Ján Klištinec (Radioactive Waste Repository Authority, Czechia)
Description
Radioactive waste management presents both scientific and societal challenges. Owing to its radiological and chemotoxic hazards and its longevity, nuclear waste requires exceptionally careful handling and long-term planning. Deep geological disposal is currently believed to be the best long-term solution for safely dealing with the inventory of higher activity radioactive waste, and geoscience and engineering are central to designing safe deep geological repositories.
Around the world, countries are pursuing their own strategies for the safe disposal of nuclear waste. While several international initiatives aim to coordinate research and share knowledge, a dedicated platform within broader professional associations such as EAGE has so far been lacking.
We are therefore pleased to announce the creation of the Technical Community on Radioactive Waste Storage and Disposal. With our inaugural workshop, “Radioactive Waste Management,” we aim to mark this milestone by bringing together geoscientists and engineers working across all aspects of radioactive waste treatment.
The main objective of the workshop is knowledge- and experience-sharing amongst the involved stakeholders, with focus on the site selection and site characterisation for deep geological repositories for radioactive waste. This should foster a closer cooperation between waste management organisations, the wider industry, academic and research communities within the geoscience and engineering disciplines.
Sub-Topics that will be covered in the workshop:
- Site selection and characterisation of deep geological disposal of radioactive waste
- Monitoring technologies for underground repositories and storage sites
- Safety assessment, modelling, and performance evaluation of disposal systems
- Geological and engineered barriers, and their interaction
Participant Profile
Participants are welcome from all geoscience and engineering disciplines involved in nuclear waste storage and disposal, as well as in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. The workshop will be particularly relevant for structural geologists, geochemists, mineralogists, and civil, electrical, mechanical engineers, numerical modelers and those involved with safety assessments.
We invite MSc students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and senior scientists from universities, research institutions, regulatory authorities, and industry working on any aspect of radioactive-waste management.
Workshop Programme
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| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 08:45 | Get Ready! - Committee |
| Session 1 | |
| 09:00 | Welcome |
| 09:10 | Keynote - Operator's and value perspective– Are Osen (Aker BP) |
| 09:35 | Keynote - Are we exploiting the full potential of OBN data? – Hossein Mehdi Zadeh (Equinor) |
| 10:00 | Panel session with keynotes and Q&A |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| . | Session 2 PS recording and imaging (status and open questions) |
| 10:30 | Drop & Pop tri-component ArchiNode -Didier Lecerf (PGS) |
| 10:50 | About imaging and inversion of S waves – Adriana Citlali Ramirez - (TGS) |
| 11:10 | Trials, tribulations and silver lining of converted-wave data - regional experiences with PS processing – Marcela Ortin (SLB) |
| 11:30 | Panel session with keynotes and Q&A |
| 11:50 | Lunch |
| Session 2: Elastic FWI (unresolved challenges) | |
| 13:00 | Generative Adversarial Networks for elastic full waveform inversion: Sleipner case - Bhargav Boddupalli (SINTEF) |
| 13:20 | Why FWI should be elastic and more – René Édouard Plessix (Shell) |
| 13:40 | Converted wave elastic FWI using multi-component OBN data – Andrew Ratcliffe (Viridien) |
| 14:00 | Panel session with speakers and Q&A |
| 14:20 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30 | Panel Session |
| . | Short intro statement per panelist |
| . | Discussion - Erling Vågnes (Equinor), Wadii El Karkouri (TGS), Helene Veire (Aker BP) and Alexandre Bertrand (Vår Energi) |