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International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|8:00–9:45AM EST|Georgetown West
Session Chair:
Haruko Wainwright (MIT)
Alternate Chair:
Lindsay Shuller-Nickles
Session Organizer:
Jens T. Birkholzer
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International Collaboration in the U.S. Disposal Research Program: Advances Made in Testing and Predicting Coupled Processes in Engineered and Natural Barriers
8:00–8:20AM EST
Jens Birkholzer (Berkeley Lab), Liange Zheng (Berkeley Lab)
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International Workshop Series on Actinide and Brine Chemistry in a Salt Repository (ABC-Salt)
8:20–8:40AM EST
Marcus Altmaier (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Jonathan P. Icehower (LANL), Chammi S. Miller (Sandia)
Presented by Tim Platte (Sandia)
Three-Dimensional Coupled Thermo-Hydraulic Modeling and Parameter Identification for the HotBENT Experiment
8:40–9:00AM EST
Haruki Ishii (Geosphere Environmental Technology Corporation), Yasuhiro Tawara (Geosphere Environmental Technology Corporation), Shin Sato (Obayashi Corporation), Florian Kober (Nagra)
In Situ Experiments on the Thermo-Hydromechanical Behavior of COx Claystone at the MHM Underground Research Laboratory
9:00–9:20AM EST
Carlos Plúa (Andra), Minh-Ngoc Vu (Andra), Frédéric Bumbieler (Andra), Gilles Armand (Andra)
Hydraulic Modeling of Saltwater Infiltration in Unsaturated Buffer Material
9:20–9:40AM EST
Yusaku Takubo (NUMO), Yutaka Sugita (JAEA), Minori Ogoshi (JAEA), Yusuke Takayama (Kobe Univ.)