¶ URS Retreat in AnnweilerAs the initial stages of the URS-projects have been established, BGE called for a milestone meeting in the form the First URS Retreat among the URS members. The 3-day event took place in Annweiler am Trifels between the 17th - 19th of April, 2023. With over 30 participants from the project partners, BGE staff and a few other invited experts, the retreat included both progress reports and extensive discussion about project specific materials and possible future collaborations. |
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As a courtesy of BGE, a 3-day long retreat took place in Annweiler am Trifels hosting the 6 projects participating in the URS-cluster. The 31 invitees included both principal representatives of the member research institutes and the responsible supperters from BGE. During the event, each project gave an 60-90 min presentation introducing the research topic and showing preliminary results achieved in the past year. The presentations were followed with discussion, primarly focused on possible collaboration between the projects, as well as possible data sharing. A brief summary of each project presentation is given below. For more detailed information, the reader is kindly invited to visit the individual project section on the side menu or have a look on the uploaded file under the program section. Presentation summaries in order of appearance:
Besides the project discussions, the event hosted ice-breaking evening programs as an informal information exchange platform for the participants, and an excursion was orginazed to visit the Kuhn Quarry near Waldhambach still operating under PfalzGranit GmbH, guided by Jens C. Grimmer from Vulcan Energy Subsurface Solutions GmbH. |
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¶ Location
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Venue: The Oval Office Kurhausstraße 25 76855 Annweiler am Trifels Contact: +49 6346 308860 info@jugendstilhotel-trifels.de
Excursion: Kuhn Quarry close to Waldhambach Guide: Jens C. Grimmer (Vulcan Energy Subsurface Solutions GmbH) |
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¶ Program
You can download the detailed program here.
¶ 17th April - Monday |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Opening of the meeting Welcome, introduction, meeting objectives and schedule |
Wolfram Rühaak (BGE) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
BGE Uncertainty assessment in the representative preliminary safety analysis in the German site selection procedure (presentation) |
Phillip Kreye (BGE) |
| 16:15 - 16:45 |
REDUKLIM Reduction of scenario uncertainties through climate models (presentation) |
Judith Flügge (GRS) |
| 16:45 - 17:45 |
REDUKLIM Modelling of long-term future climate change with application to the problem of permanent nuclear waste storage in Germany (presentation) |
Christine Kaufhold (PIK) |
¶ 18th April - Tuesday |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
RADON Numerical simulation of thermohaline flow and salt transport (presentation) |
Thomas Graf (LU Hannover) |
| 09:30 - 10:15 |
RADON Estimation of risks of pollutant dispersion with Enhanced Bayesian Networks (presentation) |
Matteo Broggi (LU Hannover) |
| 10:30 - 12:30 |
MeQUR Uncertainty in THM coupled analyses of barrier integrity |
Thomas Nagel (TUBAF) Sibylle Mayr (BGR) Jan Thiedau (BGR) Jörg Buchwald (UFZ) Oliver Ernst (TU Chemnitz) |
| 13:30 - 13:50 |
Smart Monitoring Improvement of the predictive quality of repository-relevant simulations through optimal data acquisition and smart monitoring Part A: Project overview and modelling |
Julia Kowalski (RWTH Aachen) |
| 13:50 - 14:10 |
Smart Monitoring Part B: Surrogate models |
Wolfgang Nowak (Uni Stuttgart) |
| 14:10 - 15:00 |
Smart Monitoring Part C: Data acquisition and geophysical inversion (presentation) |
Marc Boxberg (RWTH Aachen) |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Excursion - Kuhn Quarry near Waldhambach | |
¶ 19th April - Wednesday |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
GeoBlocks Building blocks for quantifying uncertainties in geological models Part A: Project overview and computational implementation |
Florian Wellmann (RWTH Aachen) |
| 09:30 - 10:30 |
GeoBlocks Part B: Geological concepts and first steps |
Peter Achtziger (RWTH Aachen) Frithjof Bense (BGR) |
| 10:45 - 12:00 |
ENSURE Repository safety: Uncertainties and regulatory aspects with focus in human factor issues |
Oliver Sträter (Uni Kassel) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Summary and outlook |
Wolfram Rühaak (BGE) |