The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) will lead the session "Deep Geological Repositories: Characterization of Barrier Materials, Integrity Assessment, and Regulatory Insights" at the EGU 2025.

Europe’s largest annual geoscience conference will take place from April 27 to May 2, 2025, in Vienna, expecting around 16,000 experts from around the world. Together with several research institutions, BASE will offer an interdisciplinary session on deep geological repository (DGR) projects, contributing to the international scientific exchange on nuclear waste disposal.

Nuclear Waste Disposal and Social Sciences: Abstract Submissions Still Open

What lessons have we learned so far from deep geological repository projects? Participants in this session will engage with this question in depth, focusing on the close relationship between geoscientific insights and regulatory challenges. The session also promotes discussion on various repository concepts, national and transnational public outreach efforts, participation programs, site selection approaches, and legal frameworks.

We encourage geoscientists and researchers from related disciplines to submit abstracts for this session. The deadline for submission is the 15th of January 2025.

The Organizers

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is the umbrella organization for European geoscientists and the largest scientific society in this field.

The session hosted by BASE is organized in cooperation with the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, the Institute for Repository Research at TU Clausthal, and the Section of Waste Technology, IAEA, Austria.