SCK•CEN Academy short course on underlying R&D for the disposal of radioactive waste
SCK•CEN controlled & secured area
Boeretang 200
Mol
Overzicht
This training course is complementary to the BNEN course on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, and will either deepen certain topics, or treat specific topics of high importance.
Onderwerpen
Integrated performance and safety assessment of a candidate surface disposal site:
- Methodology of safety assessment (based on ISAM), analysis of Features, Events, and Processes (FEPs) and development of scenarios for long-term performance and safety assessment;
- Development of conceptual and numerical models for evaluating the safety of near surface disposal;
- Basic principles of water flow, radionuclide transport, and heat flow in saturated or unsaturated media: processes and data;
- Deterministic consequence analysis for the groundwater pathway by integrating calculations from near field, geosphere, and biosphere models;
- Analysis of human intrusion scenarios;
- Issues of chemical toxicity for non-radiological waste components;
- Role of geochemistry in process understanding and modelling;
- Confidence building: Model verification and model benchmarking.
Selection and characterization of a geological disposal site:
- How to find a suitable geological environment now and for the long-term future;
- Boom clay in the Campine underground as the reference host formation.
Radionuclide geochemistry and its effect on radionuclide migration:
- Why is the radionuclide geochemistry important?
- What do we need to know?
- How can we determine these characteristics?
- Can we interpret? Discussion of examples.
Programma
Het volledige programma kan hier worden gedownload:
Underlying RD for the disposal of radioactive waste 2014.pdf
Leerdoelen
Getting a better understanding of some basic issues in the management of the back-end of the fuel cycle:
- The methodology and main results of the assessment of the long-term safety of a candidate surface disposal site in Belgium. This is a key element in order to obtain a license for a surface disposal site. This is complemented with a visit to the experimental site of the surface disposal project (site of Mol-Dessel);
- The selection and characterization of a geological disposal site – the criteria how to identify potential sites and how to characterize them (mineralogy, long-term stability, etc);
- The radionuclide geochemistry and its effect on radionuclide migration: this knowledge is fundamental in order to understand the behavior of the radionuclides immobilized in the waste package once they are released in the disposal environment.
Prijs
All participants pay 545 EUR (incl.VAT).
Registration for BNEN students is free.
Registratie
You can register by clicking on the registration button above until March 9, 2014. Cancellation with total refund is only possible up to 2 weeks before the beginning of the course.
The registration fee amounts to 545 EUR (VAT included). This fee includes the material for the course on hard-copy (copy of the used slides during the training course). Lunch is foreseen at the SCK•CEN cafeteria at own expenses.
Your registration is only final when you have made your payment by creditcard or bank transfer. You can use our E-terminal application (http://www.sckcen.be/E-terminal/) for paying by creditcard, or you can transfer the money to our bank account IBAN BE 58 5502 7124 0079 of SCK•CEN, Herrmann Debrouxlaan 40, B-1160 Brussels. The address of the bank is Dexia Bank, Koning Albert II laan 30b2, B-1000 Brussels (SWIFT BIC-code GKCCBEBB). Please make sure that the payment should be made net of all bank charges and commission. Please indicate "Academy course on radwaste disposal" and your name on the bank transfer.