PETRUS-III PROJECT
(Contract Number: FP7 - 605265)
Deliverable: D3.34
Running the first training course
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Author(s): Francisco Javier Elorza.
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Date of issue of this report: 30/09/2016
Start date of project: 01/09/2013 Duration: 36 Months
Project co-funded by the European Commission under the Euratom Research and Training Programme on
Nuclear Energy within the Seventh Framework Programme
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ABSTRACT:
This document gives an overview of the training courses given during the first annual
Petrus PhD event. The event was held in Université de Lorraine, Mines Nancy, France,
from 22nd to 26th June of 2015. Seven expert lecturers presented the current state-of-the-
art. This report gives a summary of the lectures
RESPONSIBLE:
Francisco Javier Elorza Tenreiro
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Prepared by Francisco Javier Elorza
Tenreiro, Guillermo Serrano
Blanco
30/09/2016
Revised by Francisco Javier Elorza
Tenreiro 15/10/2016
Approved by: Behrooz Bazargan Sabet
30/10/2016
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Introduction
The event is an opportunity for selected PhD students to present their works in all areas related to
radioactive waste management and disposal. Special prizes will be awarded in both oral
presentation and poster sessions.
The location of this event was the Université de Lorraine, Mines Nancy, France.
The conference had two main components: (i) a school – where expert lectures were given; (ii) a
conference – where the participants could present their work and get feedback.
This document provides a summary of the expert lectures.
Expert lectures programme
The programme of expert lectures was as follows:
Day 1 14:30-17:30
Natural analogue studies in the geological disposal of radioactive
wastes
Lecturer: Mr. Jean-Marc Montel (ENSG, Université de Lorraine, France) - Amphi 200
Day 2
14:00-15:30 Microbiology in nuclear waste disposal
Lecturer: Mr. Karsten Pedersen (Chalmers University / Microbial Analytics AB, Sweden) - Amphi 200
16:00-17:30 Radioactive waste management and social issues Lecturer: Ms. Jenny Rees (SKB/ Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management, Sweden) - Amphi 200
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Day 3
14:00-15:30
Modelling the coupled physical and chemical processes in engineered barrier systems in relation to safety analysis/assessment Lecturer: Dr. Snehasis Tripathy (Cardiff University, UK) – Amphi 200
16:00-17:30 Radiation Protection and the impact of the new EU BSS on Waste
Management. Lecturer : Dr. Danyl Pérez Sánchez (CIEMAT, Spain) - Amphi 200
Day 4
14:00-15:30 Radioactive waste forms in the context of geological disposal.
Lecturer: Mr. Abdesselam Abdelouas (École des Mines de Nantes, France) - Amphi 200
Day 5
09:00-11:00
Hydro-mechanical and transport processes in radioactive waste disposal. Lecturer: Mr. FCO Javier Elorza (Mining School of Madrid, Spain) - Amphi 200
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Lecture summaries, Lecturer biographies
Title: Natural analogue studies in the geological disposal of radioactive wastes
Summary:
Studying natural analogues is a powerful method for assessing very long-term issues in nuclear
waste management. The geological systems which more or less mimic planned nuclear waste
repository can give us direct information on the behavior and evolution of radioactive materials
buried for a very long time. This approach is especially efficient for designing new waste forms,
and for studying the effect of long-term radioactive decay on solid materials
Jean-Marc Montel
Professor, Université de Lorraine, France
A former student of the ENSG, from which he graduated as an
engineer in 1982, Jean-Marc Montel obtained a DEA from the
National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine in the same year, and
five years later a doctorate. From 1988, and for eleven years,
he is in charge of research at the CNRS, LMV Clermont-
Ferrand. In 1999, he taught at the Paul-Sabatier University in
Toulouse, until 2008. During this period, he led the Master of
Sciences of the Universe of Paul-Sabatier University from 2003
to 2008 and took the lead of the Laboratory of Mechanisms and
Transfers in Geology, LMTG (2006 Laboratoire géosciences
environnement Toulouse) from 2006 to 2008 after having been
the deputy director for three years. In 2008, he returned to
ENSG as professor of mineralogy, endogenous petrology and
radioactive waste. Since 2008, is the Managing Director of the
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG) in Nancy. His
current research themes are natural radioactive minerals.
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Title: Microbiology in nuclear waste disposal
Summary: Microbiological systems are alive and thus not in thermodynamic equilibrium because
living organisms preserve their internal order by taking free energy from their surroundings in the
form of organic nutrients, reduced inorganic compounds or sunlight, and they expel an equal
amount of energy as heat and entropy to their surroundings. This means that order is increased in
the microorganisms and decreased in their surroundings, i.e. living systems strive to move away
from thermodynamic equilibria. Consequently, by excluding microbial processes that may
control reactions rates, too optimistic assumptions may be introduced in the safety and
performance assessment of the repositories. This is because uncertainties and technical issues
related to microbial processes that could undermine the repository safety case, such as
microbially induced corrosion, gas formation, radionuclide transformation and migration and
barrier degradation may remain overlooked.
Karsten Pedersen Karsten Pedersen obtained his PhD degree 1982 at
Department of Microbiology, University of Gothenburg,
Sweden with a thesis on microbial biofilms in seawater. His
present affiliation is senior principal scientist at Microbial
Analytics Sweden AB, www.micans.se. Pedersen has 30 years
of experience of research and education regarding
microbiology in radioactive waste disposal. He has presently
published more than 100 papers, reviews and book chapters
in peer-reviewed international scientific press and he has
written many reports for national and international nuclear
waste disposal organizations.
Professor, Chalmers University / Microbial Analytics AB, Sweden
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Title: Radioactive waste management and social issues.
Summary: The interaction between social and technical aspects of radioactive waste disposal in
the Swedish system was presented. It was shown that while discussion with wider society was the
norm - especially during the feasibility studies and site investigations – ”how to do so?, who to
include and when to do it?, were all open questions. Various aspects of social integration and
local acceptance and how the radioactive waste management were discussed. A number of
critical aspects, such as uncertainty, decision making, time scales and ownership were shown to
play important roles.
Head of Public Relations and Added Values (SKB Oskarshamn , Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management, Sweden)
Jenny Rees
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Title: Modelling the coupled physical and chemical processes in engineered barrier systems in
relation to safety analysis/assessment
Summary: The lecture is intended to provide insight into numerical modelling of physical and
chemical processes in clay buffers in geological repositories. The lecture focuses on the coupled
thermal, hydraulic, chemical and mechanical behavior of the buffer, and application of numerical
modelling for studying the complex phenomena with regards to the clay behavior under
geological repository conditions.
Snehasis Tripathy
Doctor, Cardiff University, UK
Snehasis Tripathy joined Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bangalore to read for a PhD in 1995. He received
prestigious fellowships, such as Senior Research Fellow and
Research Associate from the Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research, India, during 1996-2000. In 2000
Snehasis was awarded a PhD degree in Geotechnical
Engineering from IISc Bangalore for his research work on
cyclic swell-shrink behaviour of compacted expansive soils.
Snehasis joined Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore as a Research Fellow in 2000. He was involved in
developing several new devices for inducing and measuring
suction in soils (viz., a new pressure plate device to establish
drying and wetting soil water characteristic curves,
measurement of soil suction using chilled mirror dew-point
device). In 2002, he joined Bauhaus-University Weimar,
Germany and continued to do teaching and research in the
field of unsaturated soil mechanics until 2006. He joined
Cardiff University in December 2006.
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Title: Radiation Protection and the impact of the new EU BSS on Waste Management.
Summary: International and regional organizations such as the IAEA, NEA, EC and ICRP
develop standards, guidelines and recommendations under a framework of co-operation to assist
countries in establishing and maintaining national standards. In December 2013, the Council of
the European Union adopted new Basic Safety Standards for radiation protection which Member
States are required to transpose into national law. Given that the waste management in Europe
will need to continue, the questions arises whether the new standards will have implications on
radioactive waste management and disposal in terms of practical radiation protection and
radiological assessment.
Danyl Pérez Sánchez
Doctor, CIEMAT, Spain
Activities in the field of radiological protection extend
to the public and to the environment. Ongoing research
covers radioecology, evaluation of radiological
impacts, environmental radioactivity measurements,
and personal and environmental dosimetric impact
assessments.
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Title: Radioactive waste forms in the context of geological disposal
Summary: Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels generates many types of nuclear waste (Very-
low-, low-, intermediate- and high-level waste). Depending on their activity level these waste are
conditioned in specific matrices and are intended to be stored in geological sites. The lectures
will give insights on the waste forms commonly produced in France and their behavior under
geological disposal conditions.
Abdesselam Abdelouas
Professor, École des Mines de Nantes, France
Dr. Abdesselam Abdelouas is a professor at the Ecole des
Mines de Nantes (France) working at SUBATECH
department. He received a PhD in geochemistry from
Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France). His
PhD’s work focused on corrosion of natural and nuclear
glasses in salt solutions. He then joined the University of
New Mexico (USA) as a postdoc and a research scientist
working on nitrate and uranium bioremediation. In 2004
he completed his “Habilitation” in radiochemistry at the
University of Nantes (France). His recent areas of interest
include nuclear materials (glasses, crystalline ceramics,
spent fuel, graphite, steels…) and their performance under
environmental conditions. Also, he is interested on
biogeochemistry of radionuclides including uranium,
technetium, iodine, chlorine and selenium. Prof.
Abdelouas teaches courses in Radioactive Waste
Management & Disposal, nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear waste
forms, environmental behavior of radionuclide. He has
been the head of the French master program in safety and
environment for 6 years and is now the head of
international master program in nuclear engineering,
waste management and medical applications.
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Title: Hydro-mechanical and transport processes in radioactive waste disposal.
Summary: Understanding the near-field evolution of a deep geological disposal system for HLW
is crucial for assessing its long term performance and, therefore, safety. For that reason ENRESA
devised the FEBEX Project. The project consists of a full-scale “in-situ” heating test, a large-
scale laboratory mock-up and supporting materials tests, and modelling.
Even though the object of the project is to contribute to the search for methods of behaviour and
of safety analyses for a repository. The stated objectives are to demonstrate the procedures of
constructing an engineered barrier system (EBS), especially the fabrication, handling, and
installation of bentonite blocks (buffer) at an almost industrial scale, to improve and validate the
numerical models for thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour, and to investigate the geochemical
processes that are produced in the buffer including canister corrosion, as well as the generation
and transport of gas. The measured thermal response of the buffer follows the pattern predicted in
the preliminary modelling. The saturation rate of the buffer and associated mechanical processes
are being continuously monitored.
Fco. Javier Elorza Tenreiro
Professor, Mining School of Madrid, UPM, Spain
Francisco Javier Elorza Tenreiro obtained the Mining
Engineering degree from the Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid (UPM) in 1981 and obtained his PhD degree in 1985.
He was appointed Professor in charge of Course in 1982 and
Associated Professor of Applied Mathematics in 1987, both in
the ETSI of Mines of the UPM. Since 2008 he is Full Professor
in the Department of Geological Engineering of the UPM. In
the period 1994-2000 he was seconded National Expert in the
Institute of the Environment of the Joint Research Center of the
European Commission in Ispra (Italy). He has been working in
the application of mathematical methods in Earth Sciences
since 1981: low permeability fracture medium hydrogeology,
reactive groundwater flow and solute transport in porous
medium, mechanics of unsaturated soils and simulation of non-
linear thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in radioactive waste
repositories.
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Conclusions
The PETRUS PhD Conference was undertaken, hosted at Université de Lorraine, Mines Nancy,
France from 22nd June 2015 to 26th June 2015. This document provides a brief summary of the
lectures given, with the lectures and recordings available at http://petrus2015.strikingly.com/.