Modern2020 Final Conference

Detailed programme of the conference can be downloaded here.

Session 1: Opening Session (Chair: Johan Bertrand)

• Welcome and introduction by Frédéric Plas, Andra (FR)
• Overview of the Modern2020 Project by Johan Bertrand, Andra (FR)

Session 2: Key Conclusion from the Modern2020 Project (Chair: Johan Bertrand)

• Monitoring Strategies (WP2) - Approach and Key Messages by Mansueto Morosini, SKB (SE)
• Monitoring Technologies (WP3) - Approach and Key Messages by José Luis García-Siñeriz, Amberg (SP)
• Demonstration (WP4) - Approach and Key Messages by Jan Verstricht, Euridice GIE (BE)
• Engaging Local Citizens (WP5) - Approach and Key Messages by Anne Bergmans, Antwerpen University (BE)

Session 3: Monitoring Strategies (Chair: Bernd Frieg)

• Monitoring During the Operational Period to Provide Further Confidence in the Post-Closure Safety Case: Strategies and Parameters by Matt White, Galson Sciences (UK)
• Derivation of Monitoring Parameters based on the Safety Assessment as a Contribution for a Monitoring Concept until Closure of a High-Level Waste GDF by Paul Smith, SAM Ltd. (UK)
• Monitoring Concept Development for a HLW Repository in Germany in Close Relation to the Safety Case by Michael Jobmann, BGETEC (DE)
• Cigéo Project: Definition of Monitoring Strategy and Application in link with major Milestones of Development (Licensing Application, Industrial Pilot phase…) by Sylvie Voinis, Andra (FR)
• Monitoring Programme for the Olkiluoto Repository, Finland by Tuomas Pere, Posiva (FI)
• SKB Monitoring Strategy by David Luterkort, SKB (SE)

Session 5: Citizen stakeholder Participation (Chair: Anne Bergmans)

• Building Trust and Improving Safety? A Four-Nation Comparison of Public Participation in Monitoring of Nuclear Waste by Axelle Meyermans, Antwerpen University (BE)
• Trust, Mistrust and Citizen Vigilance in Radioactive Waste Management Policies: a Historical Analysis of Four Forerunner Countries by Markku Lehtonen, Universitat, Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (SP)
• Nuclear Culture and Citizen Participation: Networked and distributed artworks by Ele Carpenter, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
• Learning from Socio-Technical Analogues for Monitoring of DGD. A Comparative Perspective on Wind Power, Fracking, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Deep Geological Nuclear Waste Disposal by Dörte Themann, Freie Universität, Berlin (DE)

Session 6: Summaries of Monitoring Technologies (Chair: Juan Carlos Mayor)

• Current State of the Art of Wireless Data Transmission Systems for Repository Monitoring by Thomas Schröder, NRG (NL)
• Electric Power Sourcing of Wireless Repository Monitoring Sensors by Esko Strömmer, VTT (FI)
• Overview of Optical Fiber Technologies for Radioactive Waste Disposal Site Monitoring by Patrice Mégret, University of Mons(BE)
• Geophysical Monitoring of High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories by Hansruedi Maurer, ETH Zurich (CH)
• Methodology for Qualifying the Monitoring Components by Jean-Michel Matray, IRSN (FR)

Session 7b: New Developments in Repository Monitoring Technologies (Chair: José Luis García-Siñeriz)

• Application of Ultrasonic Techniques for Quality Assurance of Salt Concrete Engineered Barriers: Shape, Cracks and Delamination  by Ernst Niederleithinger, BAM (DE)
• The Long Term Rock Buffer Monitoring in Situ Test, Assessing under Realistic Conditions the Performances of Monitoring Devices Developed in Modern2020 Pierre Dick, IRSN (FR)
• Non-intrusive Geo-electrical ERT Monitoring of High-Level Radioactive Waste Experiments in Tournemire URL Bruna De Carvalho, University of Strathclyde (UK)
• What We Can Learn from a Full-Scale Demonstration Experiment after 4 Years of DTS Monitoring – the FE Experiment Tobias Vogt, NAGRA (CH)
• Niches of Fibreoptic Sensing: From LargeStrain Applications to Acoustic Emission Monitoring by Pavol Stajanca, BAM (DE)

Session 8: Long-term Integrated Monitoring System (Chair: Jan Verstricht)

• Monitoring the Full Scale Emplacement Experiment (FEBEX) over 18 Years: Lessons Learned for Future Repository Monitoring Florian Kober, NAGRA (CH)
• Lessons Learnt after more than 7 Years of Monitoring the Full-Scale Emplacement Experiment at the Mont Terri URL Herwig Müller, NAGRA (CH)
• Feedback from more than 20 years of Monitoring of Underground Research Laboratory, Site and Experiments Emilia Huret, Andra (FR)
• Difficulties of Monitoring in the Rock Formations Vsevolod Igin, NORAO (RU)
• Rock Mechanics Monitoring Programme at Olkiluoto Repository Site, Finland Sophie Haapalehto, Posiva (FI)

Session 9: Decision Making Process (Chair: Mansueto Morosini)

• Planning for Evaluating and Responding to Monitoring Results, and Use of Monitoring in Decision Making by Matt White, Galson Sciences (UK)
• The IAEA Prospective on Use of the Monitoring Programmes in the Safe Development of Geological Disposal Facilities for Radioactive Waste Gerard Bruno, AIEA
• Passive Trust or Active Mistrust? The Finnish and French Approaches to Monitoring of Radioactive Waste Repositories by Matti Kojo and , Tampere University (FI)and Markku Lehtonen, Universitat, Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (SP)
• Do We Need a Nuclear Steward? Monitoring as Task for a Long-Term Governance Institution by Peter Hocke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
• Community Modelling making Sense of Monitoring Data by Catharina Landström, Chalmers University of Technology (SE)
• Strategic Monitoring - a Proposal for the Institutional Surveillance of Complex and Long-term Disposal Systems by Thomas Flüeler, ETH Zurich (CH)

Session 10: Closing Session (Chair: Johan Bertrand)

• Regulatory perspective about monitoring dedicated to geological disposal facilities for radioactive waste in Finland by Jaakko Leino, STUK (FI)
• Regulatory Perspective about Monitoring dedicated to Geological Disposal Facilities for Radioactive Waste in Switzerland Thomas van Stiphout, ENSI (CH)
• Rapporteur on Strategies and Technologies Frank Hansen, independent (US)
• Rapporteur on Stakeholder Involvement Peter Simmons, University of East Anglia (UK)
• Rapporteur on the Overall Modern2020 Conference Piet Zuidema, Zuidema Consult GmbH (CH)
  Closure of the Meeting Johan Bertrand, Andra (FR)