MR002
Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Disposal: Coupled Thermal, Hydrological, Mechanical, Chemical, and Biological (THMCB) Processes over Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales II Posters

Monday, 14 December 2020: 04:00-20:59
Poster
Primary Convener:  Yongliang Xiong, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Teklu Hadgu1, Thomas A Dewers1 and Qinhong Hu2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States(2)The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yongliang Xiong, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Chairs:  Yongliang Xiong1, Teklu Hadgu2, Thomas A Dewers2 and Qinhong Hu3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States(2)Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States(3)The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yongliang Xiong, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Updated Simulations of the FEBEX Full-Scale In-situ Heater Test for High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal in Crystalline Rock (668743)
Teklu Hadgu1, Thomas A Dewers1, Edward N Matteo2 and Steven P Gomez2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Experimental Determination of Conditional Solubility Constants of Wyoming Bentonite (MX-80) at Elevated Temperatures (669469)
Yongliang Xiong, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Yifeng Wang, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Sara Russo, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
 
Molecular-level geochemical characterizaiton of organic matter heterogeneity in bentonite (673191)
Muhammed Usman and Myrna J Simpson, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Thermally induced acoustic emissions in salt at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (675033)
Robert Charles Choens II1, Kristopher L Kuhlman1, Courtney G Herrick1, Shawn Otto2 and Brian Lee Dozier2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM, United States
 
Nuclear Waste Disposal with Thermally Engineered Bentonite Backfill (676081)
Jonny Rutqvist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Quantifying isolated pore space in geological barrier materials (682519)
Qinhong Hu1, Qiming Wang1, Prince Oware1, Tristan Tom1, Yukio Tachi2, Yuta Fukatsu2, Jan Ilavsky3, Jonathan Almer3 and Jun-Sang Park3, (1)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-Gun, Tokai-Mura, Japan, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States
 
Utilizing Field Data and Numerical Modeling to Constrain Reservoir Parameters During a Salt Heater Test (683163)
Richard Jayne Jr and Kristopher L Kuhlman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Fluid flow in low-permeability media: Nanoconfinement and nonlinear dynamics (Invited) (696481)
Yifeng Wang, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
First Round of Testing in the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) (700818)
Kristopher L Kuhlman1, Melissa Marie Mills1, Richard Jayne Jr1, Courtney G Herrick1, R Choens1, Martin Nemer1, Jason E Heath2, Edward N Matteo1, Yongliang Xiong1, Shawn Otto3, Brian Lee Dozier3, Doug Weaver3, Phil H Stauffer4, Eric Guiltinan4, Hakim Boukhalfa4, Thom A Rahn4, Yuxin Wu5, Jonny Rutqvist6, Mengsu Hu5 and Dustin Crandall7, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Geomechanics, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Carlsbad, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
 
Global Sensitivity Analysis for U(VI) Transport in a Generic Deep Geologic Repository (710162)
Dinara Ermakova1, Haruko M Wainwright2, Liange Zheng3, Ian Shirley2, Hannah Lu4 and Daniel Tartakovsky5, (1)University of California Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, United States
 
Characterization of Permeability/Porosity Relationships as a Function of Rubble Pile Polydispersity during Room Closure at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (712201)
Edward N Matteo1, Thomas A Dewers2, Melissa Mills3, Rob Lander4 and Linda Bonnell4, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, 08842, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)Geocosm, LLC, Durango, United States
 
Thermal Pressurization Process in Nuclear Waste Disposal in Argillaceous Claystone (753934)
Hao Xu, Jonny Rutqvist and Jens Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Gas Transport in Clays: Dilatation, Dry out, and Behavior Transitions (774059)
Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research and Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Edward N Matteo, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Nicholas W Hayman, Oklahoma Geological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States