The 7th meeting of the Salt Club will take place on September 4, 2017 in Nieuwdorp, Netherlands. The agenda includes welcoming remarks, approval of past meeting summaries, and election of leadership positions. Updates will be provided on geochemistry testing, microbial activity in salt, and the FEP catalogue. The main topic will be consolidation of crushed salt and its relevance to repository safety. Presentations will discuss crushed salt as an engineered barrier, material behavior from in situ tests, fluid flow modeling, and material models. International developments from the ABC-Salt workshop will also be discussed. The meeting will conclude with a chairperson's summary and discussion of the next meeting details.
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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
? J?rg M?nig,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
J?rg M?nig (Chair) / NEA secretariat
10min
9:50 2.2 D Approval of the Summary Record of SC-6
J?rg M?nig (Chair) / NEA secretariat
10min
10:00 2.3 D Election/ConfirmationofChair, Vice Chair and Steering
Group
J?rg M?nig (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.M¨¹ller-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 M¨¹ller-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. Br¨¹ckner,and C. L¨¹deling,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
J?rg M?nig (Chair),NEA secretariat
10min
16:40 6.2 D NextMeeting
? Meetingformat
Date andlocation(opentodiscussion)
J?rg M?nig (Chair),NEA secretariat
10min
16:50 Meetingadjourn