Conference Agenda

Session

01.28 Geosciences for the safe disposal of radioactive waste– long-term safety, host rock characterisation and analogue studies

Time:

Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:

8:30am - 10:00am

Session Chair: Lisa Richter, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
Session Chair: Jörg Lang, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
Session Chair: Thomas Mann, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
Session Chair: Nils-Peter Nilius, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung BGE
Session Chair: Axel Liebscher, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung BGE
Session Chair: Felina Schütz, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

Location: ZHG 004

85 PAX

Presentations

8:30am - 8:45am
Keynote 15 min.
Topics: 01.28 Geosciences for the safe disposal of radioactive waste– long-term safety, host rock characterisation and analogue studies

The importance of geoscientific findings for the site selection process for a radioactive waste repository

Saleem Chaudry

Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie

8:45am - 9:00am
Topics: 01.28 Geosciences for the safe disposal of radioactive waste– long-term safety, host rock characterisation and analogue studies

Reconstructing the past as a glimpse into a (potential) future: The impact of glacigenic processes on the long-term safety of radioactive waste repositories

Jörg Lang¹, Anke Bebiolka¹, Sonja Breuer¹, Andrea Hampel², Vera Noack¹, Sarah Weihmann³

¹Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Germany; ²Institut für Erdsystemwissenschaften, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; ³Lehrstuhl für Endlagersicherheit (ELS), RWTH Aachen, Germany

9:00am - 9:15am
Topics: 01.28 Geosciences for the safe disposal of radioactive waste– long-term safety, host rock characterisation and analogue studies

Sedimentology and integrated stratigraphy of the Opalinuston-Formation in Southern Germany

Thomas Mann¹, Tilo Kneuker¹, Géraldine Nicole Zimmerli², Jochen Erbacher^1,3, André Bornemann¹, Reiner Dohrmann^1,3, Bernhard Schuck¹, Lukas Pollok¹

¹Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Germany; ²Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland; ³State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG), Hannover, Germany

9:15am - 9:30am
Topics: 01.28 Geosciences for the safe disposal of radioactive waste– long-term safety, host rock characterisation and analogue studies

Connecting fracture filling geochemistry and migration paths in deep granitoid rocks from the Bukov Underground research facility (URF)

Annemie Kusturica^1,5, Christiane Rößler², Jann Schöngart³, Milan Zuna⁴, Cornelius Fischer³, Thorsten Schäfer¹

¹Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany; ²Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany; ³Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf, Leipzig, Germany; ⁴ÚJV Řež a.s., Czech Republic; ⁵Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

9:30am - 9:45am
Topics: 01.28 Geosciences for the safe disposal of radioactive waste– long-term safety, host rock characterisation and analogue studies

Permeability evolution during cyclic loading at different temperatures using the Thermo-Triaxial device

Angel Ramirez¹, Leandra M. Weydt¹, Ingo Sass^1,2

¹Department of Geothermal Science and Technology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße 9, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany; ²Section 4.3 – Geoenergy, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

9:45am - 10:00am
Topics: 01.28 Geosciences for the safe disposal of radioactive waste– long-term safety, host rock characterisation and analogue studies

From Drilling Core to Model: A Multimethod Approach to Subsurface Characterization at Asse Salt Dome

York-Oliver Fischer, Lukas Pollok, Maximilian Schneider, Gunda Roos, Evelyn Suchi, Maximilian Pusch, Christian Dresbach, Carsten Hitzemann

Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Germany