| Activity: | Engineered barrier Emplacement Experiment in clayish formations - EB |
| Descripción: | The Barrier Emplacement (BE) project started in the year 2000 at the underground laboratory of Mont Terri (Switzerland). The objective of the project is to demonstrate a new concept in the field of engineered barriers for the underground storage of radioactive wastes using compactec bentonite blocks and a granular material made from bentonite pellets. |
| Activity: | Instrumentation of the cover solutions test at El Cabril |
| Descripción: | Select, acquire, calibrate and verify the instruments to be installed for the test of different cover solutions for the repository for low activity radioactive waste at El Cabril (Córdoba). The test verifies two types of adjacent multilayer covers. The layers will be fitted with different sensors to record the geomechanical parameters. |
| Activity: | Monitoring of El Cabril stockage cells |
| Descripción: | Implementing a system to monitor several environmental parameters (temperature and humidity) at the low activity radiation waste stockage cells 1 and 16 located at El Cabril (Córdoba). |
| Activity: | Prototype repository project in cristalline rock |
| Descripción: | The objective of the Project is to simulate ata a real scale level the Swedish concept of repositories for radioactive waste in granite rock formations. The role of AITEMIN in this project is to develop, start up, install and monitor a system based on fiber optic instrumentation to measure the possible movements of the heaters within the bentonite mass inside which they are confined. |
| Activity: | Thermal Buffer Test - TBT |
| Descripción: | The experiment consists of the installation of two electric heaters in a single vertical shaft excavated in granite, and surrounded by a bentonite barrier, with the aim of checking the behaviour of that barrier at high temperatures. |
| Activity: | Engineering studies and demonstrations of repository designs - ESDRED |
| Descripción: | The objective of the ESDRED integrated project directed by ANDRA (France) is to demonstrate the technical viability at the industrial scale of the engineering aspects related to the building, operation and sealing of a deep geological storage site for highly active radioactive residues. The Spanish participation in this project is focused on the development of the gallery sealing systems using low pH sprayed concrete plugs. www.esdred.info |
| Activity: | Ventilation test in clayish formations - VE Experiment |
| Descripción: | To observe and analyse the desaturation-resaturation processes in clayish rock formations caused by gallery ventilation and their impact on its mechanical, hydraulic and thermal properties. The assay is performed in a 1.2 m micro tunnel at the Mont Terri underground rock laboratory (Switzerland). |
| Activity: | KEY Experiment - Desing and test of a bentonite blocks system for cutting EDZ |
| Descripción: | The general objective of the experiment is to verify a method to interrupt the continuity of the excavated damaged zone (EDZ) at the Bure underground laboratory (France) by digging a trench filled with compacted bentonite blocks. |
| Activity: | Synthesis of technologies for crystalline rocks characterization |
| Descripción: | Creating a study that brings together and synthesizes all the existing technologies to characterize crystalline rock media for their potential utilization as radioactive waste storage. |
| Activity: | Technical support for reviewing the Deep Underground Repository concept |
| Descripción: | Review and critical analysis of the works done to date by ENRESA of the design engieering aspects of the Spanich Deep Underground Repository concept (AGP) for radioactive wastes. |
| Activity: | Installation of an automatic piezometric monitoring network at El Cabril (Spain) |
| Descripción: | Installation of an automatic piezometric network to monitor the level of subterranean water at the repository station for medium and low activity radioactive waste located in El Cabril (Córdoba). |
| Activity: | Technical viability for use of sludge of PWTS |
| Descripción: | Technical viability for use of sludge of PWTS in the fabrication of ceramic materials. Study the possibilities of reusing sludge generated at the Potable Water Treatment Station (PWTS) of Comillera (Asturias) as raw material for ceramics manufacturing processes. |
| Activity: | Backfill and Plug Test - BPT |
| Descripción: | Full scale test of different gallery backfill materials, compacted “in situ”, along with a gallery sealing plugat the Äspö underground laboratory (Sweden). |
| Activity: | Heating test in clay formations - HE Experiment |
| Descripción: | To analyse the response of a clay-type rock formation from the thermo-hydro-mechanical point of view, with regard to the thermal impact of a radioactive waste storage. |
| Activity: | Hydrogeological tests at the FEBEX project |
| Descripción: | Conducting, documentation and preliminary interpretation of the tests of a hydraulic characterisation campaign conducted in the FEBEX tunnel of the underground laboratory of Grimsel (Switzerland. |
| Activity: | Experiment for underground heating in the Meuse/Haute Marne |
| Descripción: | Study for the experiment of heating in the ANDRA´s underground laboratory in Meuse/Haute Marne (France) |
| Activity: | Sampling of diffusion in clay formations |
| Descripción: | Chambers for diffusion test and water sampling in clay formations (DI-B Experiment) |
| Activity: | Gas migration test in clay buffer (GMT) |
| Descripción: | Experiment to determine the permeability to gas of a filling material composed of sand and bentonite, in an underground store for low and medium activity radioactive waste. |
| Activity: | Piezometers for measurement of pore pressure in clay |
| Descripción: | Testing and validation of piezometers installed in probes with little diameter for the measurement of pore pressures in clays. |
| Activity: | Full scale engineered barriers experiment in crystalline host rock - NF-PRO / FEBEX / FEBEX-e |
| Descripción: | The FEBEX project entails the thermal simulation, at real scale, of the Spanich concept of repositories of geological storage of highly active radioactive wastes in a granite formation to demonstrate the viability of the design and validate and improve existing prediction models for thermal-hydro-mechanic processes characteristic of this type of deep rock storage. |