Implementing Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste – Input from Research Activities [Due September 2026]
Product code: SP561
Print publication date: 23/09/2026
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Petroleum Geoscience and Geoenergy, Not yet published
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786206985
Author/Edited by: Edited by S. Norris, M. De Craen and W. Baille
Number of pages: 392
Full Description
Special Publication 561
This title is a work in progress. Selected articles are available online from the Lyell Collection.
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Providing safe, permanent disposal of legacy and future higher activity radioactive waste is essential. Deep burial of waste in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is the internationally recognized preferred way forward. Research activities provide key inputs to the implementation of waste disposal. Delivering a GDF requires input from a range of expertise, including geoscientific, environmental, social scientific and engineering disciplines to:
- develop an understanding of the surface, near-surface and deeper geology, including evolution from past to present;
- understand how the sub-surface environment may respond to GDF construction and waste emplacement; and
- understand how the disposal system (engineered barriers, host and surrounding geology, surface environment) may evolve on a timescale that could extend to one million years in the future.
This volume collates research output from site investigation, experimental and modelling studies, as undertaken by a range of international programmes. The papers reflect the breadth and depth of scientific activities contributing to waste disposal.
Introduction
Implementing geological disposal of radioactive waste – input from research activities S. Norris
Carbonate minerals in marine clay formations – a review of five European mudstones C. Lerouge and M. Debure
Trace elements in Dutch Paleogene clays E. A. C. Neeft, A. L. Hoving, J. Griffioen, T. Behrends, M. R. Vuorio and M. Ma
Innovative petrophysical analysis workflow for safe radioactive waste disposal in Switzerland S. Marnat, J. K. Becker and E. Bailey
Management of sorption data to support radioactive waste disposal S. Brassinnes, M. López-García, I. Canals, S. Álvarez, A. Nardi, L. Duro, F. Bocchese and D. García
Assessing the impact of environmental conditions on 241Am sorption on natural argillaceous rocks and their sorbing constituents L. Van Laer, D. Durce, N. Maes, G. Verstrepen, D. Verhaegen and S. Brassinnes
Impact of oxic and thermal transient phases on corrosion of carbon steel in different cementitious media: insights from new in situ experiments C. Wittebroodt, J. Goethals, B. Zajec, L. De Windt and V. Detilleux
Filling efficiency of mono-sized pellets for sealing boreholes: identifying optimal borehole-to-pellet diameter ratio via laboratory experiments A. Sakaki and T. Sakaki
Evaluation of dry density of as-placed gap fill material in full-scale emplacement trials C. S. Kim and P. G. Keech
Physics-based and data-driven digital twins for temperature evolution in Full-scale Emplacement experiment W. Pfingsten and G. Hu
Water content evolution in the Opalinus Clay: pre-and post-backfilling observations from the lined and unlined cold sections in the Full-scale Emplacement (FE) experiment T. Sakaki, B. Firat Lüthi and R. Schneeberger
Water balance and long-term inflow estimates from in situ sampling of the HE-E heater test B. Lanyon, F. Kober, U. Mäder, M. V. Villar and A. Gens
The CHENILLE experiment: monitoring of fault-heating and fluid-injection in shale rocks at the underground research facility Tournemire, Southern France R. Giese, A. Bonnelye, C. Boese, C. Cunow, P. Dick, R. Esefelder, T. Foerster, S. Fuchs, K. Jaksch, G. Kwiatek, S. Lüth, B. Norden, K. Plenkers, H. Richter, I. Sass, S. von Specht, A. Zang and G. Zimmermann
Evaluating the performance of the composite seals at Canada’s Underground Research Laboratory (2008–24) D. G. Priyanto and C. S. Kim
How wet are shallow granites? An experimental investigation C. A. Grattoni, L. P. Field, B. W. D. Yardley, A. E. Milodowski, R. Metcalfe, Q. J. Fisher and S. Norris
Three-dimensional thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling of the full-scale in-situ system test (FISST) E. Toprak, S. Olivella, X. Pintado, S. Kumpulainen, M. Hassan, O. Kristensson and M. Niskanen
Virtual reality and augmented reality as a cutting-edge technology for modelling of nuclear waste repositories K. Yildizdag, C. Mindermann and P. Lorenz
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