Project reports

All public project reports delivered by MoDeRn will be available - in PDF format - on this page. A short description of the issued documents as well as the link to the report concerned is fold out by activating the +-sign at the left-hand side of the project report title.

Project report		Lead participant	Issued
WP1: Monitoring objectives and strategies
+	National monitoring contexts	Andra	18 March 2011
	The National Monitoring Contexts - Summary Report and its companion document National Monitoring Contexts – Country Annexes on work conducted under project Task 1.1 are published on 18.03.2011. The objectives are: To provide each project partner with the opportunity to present background information on the national context likely to influence repository system monitoring. To structure specific elements of national monitoring contexts in a set of societal and physical boundary conditions which may influence some of the upstream decisions for geologic repository monitoring. To develop an overview of these boundary conditions. To discuss how these boundary conditions may influence specific, national decisions on development and implementation of monitoring programmes. To provide a basis for a shared view on the development and implementation of a monitoring programme, including the required flexibility for its application in various national monitoring contexts.
	Monitoring objectives and strategies report	Andra

+	Basis for stakeholder communication	UA	30 October 2012
	The purpose of this report (Deliverable D.1.3.1) is to provide a basis for stakeholder engagement activities in relation to the monitoring of facilities for the geological disposal of radioactive waste. The report views monitoring as a combined socio-technical activity central to the pursuit of safe repository operation and staged closure. It sees monitoring for long-term safety as a field driven as much by social and institutional innovation as by technical innovation. The report is organised into three main sections which discuss in turn: expert views on monitoring, drawing on interview and documentary data; the role of monitoring in building stakeholder confidence, drawing on experience in other contexts; and monitoring as a socio-technical activity, focusing on the basis for social trust.
	National engagement experiments report	UA

WP2: State-of-the-art and RTD of relevant monitoring technologies
+	Technical requirements report	Aitemin	3 January 2011
	The aim of this report (Deliverable D.2.1.1) is to determine the technical requirements, besides the aspects related to occupational health, for the development of a monitoring programme for a repository during the operational phase and the early post-closure phase to give a general overview on what, where and when to measure within the different national programmes.
+	Report on workshop with other monitoring RTD projects	NDA	22 November 2010
	A workshop on monitoring technologies (the Troyes Monitoring Technologies Workshop) was held as part of Work Package 2 at the Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France on 7-8 June 2010. This document provides a record of the workshop. The Troyes Monitoring Technologies Workshop brought together 55 experts from a range of organisations, including industry, radioactive waste management organisations and research institutes. The presentations, posters and discussions at the workshop covered monitoring technologies relevant to radioactive waste repositories, focusing on recent developments in monitoring techniques potentially applicable to repository monitoring.
	State-of-the-art report	Aitemin

WP3: In-situ demonstration of innovative monitoring techniques
+	Site plans and monitoring programmes report	NDA	27 October 2010
	Work Package 3 consists of in-situ demonstration of innovative monitoring technologies, conducted to further enhance our understanding, experience and capabilities in monitoring for geological disposal. The aim of this package is to develop innovative monitoring techniques (Ref: Work Package 2) in mock-ups of disposal cells to test both the effectiveness of these techniques applied to disposal situations and to understand the limits of these monitoring technologies. This Work Package 3 focuses on the application of remote monitoring technologies to better understand what is occurring in an isolated disposal cell and also to look at solutions for embedded monitoring systems in challenging (risk of damage) situations. This approach will also hopefully enhance the confidence of key stakeholders in the ability to understand/confirm the changes occurring within a disposal cell. This report (Deliverable D.3.1.1) provides detailed site plans at all proposed demonstrators and identifies equipment requirements for in-situ monitoring demonstration experiments using innovative techniques. This report sets out the detailed programme of the proposed approach at all sites. This includes a definition of the locations for demonstration, the systems and outline configurations of the monitoring schemes complete with a more detailed programme.
+	Seismic tomography at Grimsel test site	NDA	8 January 2013
	This report (Deliverable D3.2.1) summarises a programme to develop non-intrusive monitoring of disposal cell mock-ups employing seismic waveform tomography. It is one of a group of 5 research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programmes at underground research laboratories (URLs) within the MoDeRn Project, aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art of disposal facility monitoring. The report concludes that this technique is a promising option for non-intrusive monitoring of radioactive waste repositories. It notes that there are some remaining challenges in applying this technique. The report is supported by two PhD studies (Manukyan 2011 & Marelli, 2012) which are also available on this website.
	Wireless sensor network demonstrator report	Aitemin

	Hades monitoring demonstrator report	Euridice

	Bure demonstrator report	Andra

WP4: Case study of monitoring at all stages of the disposal process
	Case study report	DBE TEC

WP5: Knowledge dissemination
+	Project presentation	Andra	1 September 2009
	Project presentation for public communication (Deliverable D5.2.1), reissued at 27 January 2010.
+	Report on focused expert stakeholders workshop	Andra	23 September 2011
	As part of MoDeRn Work Package 5 (Dissemination of Results), a workshop involving expert stakeholders (the MoDeRn Expert Stakeholders Workshop) was held in Oxford, United Kingdom, on 4-5 May 2011. The workshop brought together thirty-one representatives from a range of stakeholder organisations, bodies, agencies and groups with expertise and experience in geological disposal of radioactive waste. The objective of the workshop was to inform the expert stakeholders of the work being undertaken in the MoDeRn Project and to obtain feedback on the scope of the work. Discussion focused on two themes of the MoDeRn Project: monitoring processes and monitoring technologies. Valuable feedback was gained from the discussion, both on the MoDeRn Project scope and direction, and on setting the context for monitoring. This feedback will be used to help guide the future direction of the MoDeRn Project. This document (Deliverable D5.3.1) provides a record of discussion at the MoDeRn Expert Stakeholders Workshop. The presentations of the workshop are published separately on this website.
	Proceedings for international conference on repository monitoring	Andra

WP6: Reference framework for repository monitoring
	Repository monitoring developments report published by EC	Andra