This session includes 5 technical presentations from Japan, Switzerland, China, South Korea and France on various activities to advance disposal. Information will be shared about URL and infrastructure development, regulatory requirements, deep borehole technology review and needs, and optimization of disposal programmes.

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Establishing the Infrastructure Required to Foster Innovative Disposal Concept Optimization

10:15–10:35AM EST

Hiroyuki Umeki (Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan), Takafumi Hamamoto (NUMO, Japan), Takeshi Ebashi (NUMO, Japan), Keisuke Ishida (NUMO, Japan), Ian G. McKinley (McKinley Consulting)

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Project Development and Optimization of the Swiss Disposal Program

10:35–10:55AM EST

Irina Gaus (Nagra), Efstathios Vlassopoulos (Nagra), Ingo Blechschmidt (Nagra), Severin Wälchli (Nagra)

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Beishan Underground Research Laboratory for Geological Disposal of High Level Radioactive Waste in China, Update 2025

10:55–11:15AM EST

Ju Wang (Beijing Research Institute of Uranium)

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SITEX.Network Analyses on Deep Borehole Repository

11:15–11:35AM EST

Nadja Zeleznik (EIMV), Muriel Rocher (ASNR), Dephine Pellegrini (ASNR)

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Development of Regulatory Requirements for Site-Specific URLs for DGR in Korea

11:35–11:55AM EST

Sangsu Park (Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety), Jeheon Bang (KINS), Jinyong Park (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)

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