2017 Salt Workshop

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7th
Meeting of Salt Club
Draft Agenda
COVRA, Netherland, 4 September 2017
Practical Details:
MeetingStart: 9:30, Monday, 4 September2017
MeetingEnd: 16:50, Monday,4 September2017
Location: COVRA,Spanjeweg14455 TW Nieuwdorp,Netherlands
The nature of each agendaitemisindicatedasfollows:
I : For information
D : For decision
Welcome Coffee
Opening Remarks
9:30 1.1 I Welcome Note fromChair
 Jörg Mönig,GRS GmbH,Salt Club Chair
 COVRA (TBC)
10min
Formal Aspects
9:40 2.1 D Objectivesofthe 7th
Salt ClubPlenary meeting(SC-7) and
approval of proposedagenda
Jörg Mönig (Chair) / NEA secretariat
10min
9:50 2.2 D Approval of the Summary Record of SC-6
Jörg Mönig (Chair) / NEA secretariat
10min
10:00 2.3 D Election/ConfirmationofChair, Vice Chair and Steering
Group
Jörg Mönig (Chair)/ NEA secretariat
10min
10:10 2.4 I NEA/RWMCactivities
NEA Secretariat
- RWMC/IGSC/Clay Club / Crystalline Club / FSC
initiatives
15min + 5min
QA
Update of Salt Club Activities
10:30 3.1 I Geochemistry/ TDB Update:An-borate,iron, An-organics
Marcus Altmaier,KIT-INE
15min + 5min
QA

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10:50 3.2 I Microbial Salt ClubActivity
Julie Swanson,LANL(TBC)
15min + 5min
QA
11:10 3.3 I CrushedSalt as an Important ElementofTechnical Barriers
in an HLW-Repository
N.Müller-Hoeppe,DBETec
15min + 5min
QA
11:30 3.4 I FEP Catalogue,Database, and Salt Knowledge Archive
Geoff Freeze, SNL/ JensWolf, GRS
25min + 5min
QA
12:00 Lunch (60 min)
13:00 Topical Session
-Consolidation of Crushed Salt and its relevance for the Safety Case-
Topical SessionChair: WilhelmBollingerfehr,DBETECHNOLOGY
Aims:
 Summarize the state of the art on the understandingof the processesthatgovern
the crushedsaltconsolidationanddetermine the relevance of crushedsaltas
geotechnical barrierinarepositoryforradioactive waste
 Displayindetail the experiencesgainedbylaboratorytestsandin-situtestson
crushedsalt
 Discussand compile the R&D-needstoaccomplishthe scientificbasisforcrushed
saltas an importantcomponentof atechnical barrierina HLW repository
13:00 4.1 I Crushedsalt as important elementoftechnical barriers in a
HLW-repository(operatingconditionsofcrushed salt
backfill and their relevance forrepository safety)
Nina Müller-Hoeppe,DBE TECHNOLOGY GmbH
30min
13:30 4.2 I Material behaviour:Experiencesgainedinin-situtestson
crushed salt (inparticular investigationson wettedcrushed
salt); a comparison of the mechanical behaviourof dry and
wettedcrushed salt
FrancisHansen and/or Edward Mattheo,Sandia Labs
30min
14:00 4.3 I
Material behaviour:“FluidPercolationinSalt Rocks”
W. Minkley,D. Brückner,and C. Lüdeling,IfG-Leipzig
30min
14:30 4.4 I Material models:State of the art in describingthe TMH-
behaviourof crushed salt includingan analysisof the
challengeswhichremain and an outlook on the needof
30min

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further R&D activities.
Klaus Wieczorek, GRS Braunschweig
15:00 4.5 I
General Discussion
All
20min
15:20 4.6 I
ConcludingRemarks
Topical Session Chair
10min
15:30 Break (30min)
Other Businesses
16:00 5.1 I International Developments
- Outcomesof the ABC-SaltV workshop (TBC)
Donald T. Reed(TBC),LANL
15min + 5min
QA
16:20 5.2 I Others 10min
Closing Summary
16:30 6.1 I Chairperson’smeetingsummary
Jörg Mönig (Chair),NEA secretariat
10min
16:40 6.2 D NextMeeting
 Meetingformat
Date andlocation(opentodiscussion)
Jörg Mönig (Chair),NEA secretariat
10min
16:50 Meetingadjourn