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NEWS 10th NAWG Workshop 25-26th August 2007 The 10th NAWG Workshop will take place at the GRS Forschungsinstitute in Munich, Germany, immediately before the Migration’07 Conference on 25-26th August, 2007. The workshop will provide an overview of the current usage of natural analogues in a wide range of national radwaste programmes worldwide, along with details of a few, recently completed, major multinational projects. In addition, the workshop will examine how natural analogue studies can be better focussed on providing appropriate data for the major end-users of natural analogues. This workshop should be of interest to everyone with an interest in natural analogues, whether they be data producers or data consumers, and will provide an useful platform to further the efficient utilisation of the wide range of information which quality natural analogue studies provide. Full details of the meeting are available in the preliminary agenda along with information on travelling to the GRS site. Hotel information is available online at http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/tourist_office/hotel/88121/index.html or, for those planning to attend Migration, at http://iwrwww1.fzk.de/migration2007/accommodation.php. Those wishing to attend the workshop (or requiring further information) are requested to send their details to the NAWG chairman, Russell Alexander, at russell@bedrock-geosciences.com. We look forward to meeting you in the beautiful city of Munich in August! Final Programme (PDF 18kb) Instructions for Authors (PDF 16 kb) Travel to GRS (PDF 228 kb) Munich Metro (PDF 225 kb) Abstracts: Use of natural analogues for public communication (PDF 7 kb) NA studies in Japan
(PDF 8 kb) Nopal I Uranium Mine (PDF 6 kb) Finnish programme (PDF 10 kb) Jordan analogue abstract (PDF 12 kb) Development of an optimised natural analogue programme: a novel methodology - Download PDF 17kb Australia: The federal government announced that old uranium mine leases in the Kakadu National Park will be brought back under the park's authority and cleaned up. The isolated pockets total 466 hectares of land in the South Alligator River area and were mined up to 50 years ago. The Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Greg Hunt, said the government would spend A$7.3 million (US$5.5 million) over four years on rehabilitating the land and storing waste. (ABC Online, 5 June, 2006) France: IFP hosts an International Workshop on Gas-Water-Rock Interactions Induced by Reservoir Exploitation, CO2 Sequestration, and other Geological Storage which includes details of new natural analogue studies. See, for example, Natural Geochemical Analogues for Carbon Dioxide Storage in Deep Geological Porous Reservoirs, a United Kingdom Perspective (to download the full paper, see http://www.ifp.fr/IFP/en/IFP02OGS.nsf/VFOSOMMAIRE/7F8489B80C1C16F480256FFD00523FCF?opendocument) Japan: Final overview papers of JAEA's TAP (Tono Analogue Project) published in Geochemistry 6 (i), 2006 UK: IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme publish report on Natural Analogues for the Storage of CO2 in the Geological Environment (NASCENT). For a copy of the report, send your email address to mail@ieaghg.org UK: CoWRM discuss the use of natural analogues in the long-term management of radioactive waste - see http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/pdfs/CoRWM%20notes.pdf#search='natural%20analogues%2C%202006' Bibliography of Nagra's publications in the field of natural analogues
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