MODELLING IMPACT AND DEEP STORAGE

The "Modelling Impact and Deep Storage" unit is active notably in the fields of:

• coupled geochemistry-transport modelling,

• the development of biogeochemical modelling,

• validating concepts of storage (notably for nuclear waste) and pollutant transfer in the environmental compartments,

• barrier performance,

• sustainability of the materials used in artificial barriers.

The unit's production activities include:

• research projects in partnership with industry and cofinanced by different organizations (ANDRA, ANR, European Commission, etc.),

• public service missions: assistance in drawing up French regulations, participation in French and European standardization commissions, compilation of methodology guides, construction of databases (for example, former landfills), third-party expertise,

• international expertise actions: IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency), NUMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan),

• International projects for nuclear waste management agencies: Switzerland (NAGRA; National Co-operative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste), Belgium (SCK; nuclear research centre), Sweden (SKB; Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co).

Participation in surveying thesis work financed by ANDRA

• Caractérisation de la matière organique du Callovo-oxfordien ( Characterization of Callovian-Oxfordian organic matter )
  J. Brevet - Viva voce in October 2006
• Nanostructure et propriétés thermodynamiques de l'hydratation et de l'interstratification dans les minéraux argileux
  ( Nanostructure and thermodynamic properties of hydration and interstratification in clay minerals )
  H. Gailhanou -
  Viva voce in September 2005

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Research projects

• ECOClayII - Effects of Cement on Clay barrier performance - phase II 
  Projet du Ve Programme Cadre de Recherche et Développement de la Commission européenne
  Link to the project description on http://cordis.europa.eu
  

• Funmig - Fundamental processes of radionuclide migration
  
  Research Project of the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme
  

• NANOMORPH ANR-P2N 2011-2014 - Particle size, shape and concentration of nanotubes/nanowires in liquids
  

• NANOSEP ANR-PRECODD 2009-2012 - Aggregation and Separation Processes of Nanoparticles
  

• European project on CO2 storage - BRGM project undertaken in collaboration with the "Water" Division

• National Research Agency project on CO2 storage in collaboration with the "Geology and Geoinfomation" Division

• ANDRA, University of Grenoble , University of Poitiers , Ecole de Chimie de Mulhouse ( Mulhouse School of Chemistry)
  

Service Actions

• Participation in the Consortium MONT TERRI activities
  

• Journées du Partenariat BRGM-ANDRA ( BRGM-ANDRA Partnership Days ) organized in 2002 and 2005