SaND – Special issue – Time as a safety factor: opportunities and challenges of timely nuclear waste disposal

Editor(s): Annika Froese (Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, Germany), Torben Weyand (Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, Germany), and Carlo Dietl (Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, Germany)

This special issue contains contributions from the 3rd Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on the Safety of Nuclear Disposal Practices (safeND), held in Berlin, Germany, on 17–19 September 2025. The papers, representing a wide variety of disciplines, focus on the topic of the conference: "Time as a safety factor: opportunities and challenges of timely nuclear waste disposal". Among other topics, the special issue addresses some of the socio-technical challenges of nuclear waste management, recent developments in engineering as well as research on different host rocks and repository safety.

25 Mar 2026

The role of gas injection rate on the advective movement of gas in Opalinus Clay at the field scale

Robert James Cuss, Jocelyn Gisiger, Antonio Pio Rinaldi, Elliot James Muir Bird, David Jaeggi, Matthijs Hendrik Nuus, Manuel Lorenzo Sentis, Bastian Johannes Graupner, Frédéric Bernier, Fabien Magri, and Jon Francis Harrington

Saf. Nucl. Waste Disposal Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sand-2026-3,https://doi.org/10.5194/sand-2026-3, 2026

Preprint under review for SaND (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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