¶ Final URS Meeting in Potsdam
| The Final URS Meeting took place from 5th to 7th February 2025 in Potsdam, bringing together 52 participants of the URS research cluster coming from the scientific community across Germany, the UK, and the hosting institution, BGE. The event provided a platform for in-depth discussions on the latest findings from the 6 participating projects of the URS-cluster and their relevance to the ongoing site selection process in Germany. |
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The meeting featured presentations from all six URS projects, each highlighting recent research progress, published and planned publications, and potential applications of their results in the site selection process. Updates from BGE on the current status of site selection and an overview of the cluster's closure plans in the form of an epilogue paper and the URS-wiki project website further enriched the discussions. A key highlight of the event was the keynote speech by Paul Marschall from NAGRA, providing valuable insights into international approaches to site selection and important learning outcomes from the Swiss site-selection. The event also featured an entertaining networking dinner at the Biosphere in Potsdam, offering participants a relaxed setting for further exchange. |
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¶ Location
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Venue: Fachtagunsraum 0.214 Am Luftschiffhafen 1
Excursion: Biosphere Potsdam Georg-Hermann-Allee 99 |
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¶ Program
You can download the detailed program here.
¶ 5th February - Wednesday |
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| - 17:00 | Arrival and hotel check-in |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Welcome drink and ice breaker Location: Gipfel Stüberl |
| 19:00 - | Dinner |
¶ 6th February - Thursday |
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| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome and opening of the meeting | Wolfram Rühaak (BGE) |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Keynote by Paul Marschall (NAGRA): Performance assessment for a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in Switzerland - confidence building by model-supported sensitivity and uncertainty analyses. |
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| 09:45 - 10:00 | BGE Overview of the site-selection procedure |
Merle Bjorge (BGE) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | REDUKLIM Reduction of scenario uncertainties through climate models |
GRS PIK |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | RADON Risk-based assessment of salt Domes as disposal Sites for nuclear Waste |
LU Hannover |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | MeQUR - part 1, part 2, part 3 Numerische Verfahren zur Quantifizierung der Auswirkung von Parameterungewissheiten auf die Ergebnisse THM-gekoppelter Integritätsberechnungen |
TU Freiberg TU Chemnitz BGR UFZ |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Poster Session 1 with coffee break | |
| 17:30 - 21:00 | Biosphere tour and dinner | |
¶ 7th February - Friday |
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| 08:30 - 08:45 | Wrap-up of Day 1 | Wolfram Rühaak (BGE) |
| 08:45 - 09:15 | Wiki-website and epilogue paper discussion | Kata Kurgyis (TU Freiberg) |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | ENSURE Endlagersicherheit: Ungewissheiten und regulatorische Aspekte |
TU Clausthal Uni Kassel |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Smart Monitoring Verbesserung der prädiktiven Güte endlagerrelevanter Simulationen durch optimale Datenakquise und Smart-Monitoring |
Uni Stuttgart RWTH Aachen |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | GeoBlocks Bausteine zur Quantifizierung von Ungewissheiten in geologischen Modellen |
RWTH Aachen BGR Uni Aberdeen |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Keynote by Christian Derer (BGE): Assessing the subsurface uncertainty in the screening phase of the site selection process |
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| 14:00 - 14:45 | Poster Session 2 with coffee break | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Closing discussion | Wolfram Rühaak (BGE) |
¶ Posters
¶ Poster Session 1
- REDUKLIM: Impact of climate models on biosphere dose estimations
- MeQUR: Probabilistic integrity analyses for a generic high-level radioactive waste repository
- MeQUR: Is more always better? Study on uncertainties introduced by decision-making process of model design – a case study with thermo-osmosis
- MeQUR: Physical origins of the uncertainties of predominant input parameters
- MeQUR: Effects of inhomogeneity and (statistical and material) anisotropy on THM simulations
¶ Poster Session 2
- ENSURE: ENSURE - Use case and transferability
- Smart Monitoring: Smart Data Hub: A data-centric approach for integrated simulation workflow management in radioactive waste disposal
- Smart Monitoring: Sensitivity analysis of radionuclide transport and radiation dose simulations
- Smart Monitoring: Training surrogate models using input dimension reduction for inverse modelling problems
- Smart Monitoring: Uncertainty-informed, surrogate-assisted Bayesian optimized experimental design for fluid transport process monitoring
- Smart Monitoring: Focused optimized experimental design strategies for geophysical subsurface flow monitoring campaigns
- GeoBlocks: A methodology for the quantitative comparison of subsurface structures using geometrical parameters
- GeoBlocks: Three-dimensional modeling of geological bodies using radial basis function with external drift function
- GeoBlocks: Seismic forward modelling to characterize spatial uncertainties of geological structures
- GeoBlocks: Elements for the quantification of uncertainties in geomodels: seismic input for the GeoBlocks project