Provisional Agenda
Eight technical sessions and a poster session, from Monday 16 to Friday 20 November 2026 at the Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes.
Highlighted entries open the author's submitted abstract.
- Days
- 5
- Sessions
- 8
- Presentations
- 83
- Posters
- 23
Monday 16 November 2026
20 presentations / 3 sessions
Welcome message
A historical perspective to mark the 50th anniversary of the SBNWM symposium
A Brief Retrospective for the 50th Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management
John McCloy, Dan Gregg
Results, open issues, significance and false expectations after 50 years of science in nuclear waste management
Bernd Grambow
Geological Disposal
Post-licence application R&D Strategy for the Cigéo Project: Consolidation and Adaptation
Christelle Martin
Sequential THM Coupling of PFLOTRAN and Code_Aster for Performance Assessment of Geological Disposal Systems
Hongjeong Lee
Development of a Thermodynamic Model on Swelling Rate of Bentonite under Arbitrary Loading Stress
Haruo Sato
A Thermodynamic Analysis of Effect of Temperature on Swelling Stress of Ca-Bentonite
Kosuke Ichikawa
Wasteforms – Glass
Enhancing HLW Vitrification Performances Through Continuous Process Improvement
Régis Didierlaurent
Understanding of the Behaviour of Ruthenium in the Vitrification of Highly Active Waste
Bibi Shehrbano
Effects of modifier cations on halide behavior in sulfate-containing peralkaline aluminoborosilicate glasses
Kodie Rodman
Self-irradiation effects in glass-ceramic matrices for radioactive waste immobilization
Sandrine Miro
Crystallization and Alteration Layers in Obsidian from North America: Case Studies and the Beech Creek Site
John Bussey
Radioactive iridescence: understanding the evolution of alteration layers on nuclear waste glass
Clare Thorpe
The use of isotopic tracing to study the formation of the alteration layer on corroded glass
Eperke Rencz
Hydrogen speciation in corroded boroaluminosilicate glass: Insights from double-resonance NMR
Scott Kroeker
Rate resumption in UK Ca/Zn waste glasses from gel layer disruption by secondary phases
Patrick Painter
From Zeolites to Geoglass: Long-Term Immobilization of s-Block radionuclides
Thulasi Raman Elumalai
Poster Session
Tuesday 17 November from 7:00 p.m., alongside the dinner cocktail. The Best Poster Award is presented at the closing ceremony on Friday.
- 01
Design and safety assessment of a fine-grained U₃O₈ backfill material for geological disposal in rock salt
Cristhian Andrade
- 02
Analysis of Vitrified Simulant Plutonium Contaminated Material from Industrial Trials
Harley Bestwick
- 03
- 04
- 05
The impact of polyacrylamide radiolytic and microbial degradation products on the interim and long-term storage of radwaste
Elizabeth Debney
- 06
Simulating Water Radiolysis with H2O2 in Leaching Tests of UK Candidate Ceramic Pu Wasteforms
Latham Haigh
- 07
Probing Radiation Damage Mechanisms in Zirconolite Systems
Alexander Harvey-Reid
- 08
- 09
Comparative study of the influence of sodium nitrate on the early-age hydration of Portland cement and a low-carbon binder
Jihane Jdaini
- 10
Feasibility Analysis of Copper Shell Thickness Reduction in KBS-3V Canisters under KJ Bentonite Swelling Pressure
Gil-Eon Jeong
- 11
In-situ oxidation of Eu-doped UO2
Sam Karcher
- 12
From Dopant Chemistry to Thermodynamics: Unravelling Grain Growth Mechanisms in Cr- and Al/Cr-Doped UO₂ Ceramics
Gabriel Murphy
- 13
Supporting long-term disposal of nuclear waste materials
Sarah Pepper
- 14
Toward an integrative Approach of Nuclear Glass alteration in a Reactive environment from multiscAle Modelling
Sylvain Peuget
- 15
Microscale Characterization of Corroded Nuclear Fuel Deposits From a Cracked Fuel Rod in Forsmark Unit 1, Sweden
Ivan Pidchenko
- 16
Precursor And Phase Development Of Zirconolite Wasteforms
Charlie Rideout
- 17
- 18
Glass-bonded Ceramic Wasteform for Immobilization of Ferric Precipitate from Radioactive Wastewater
Sungjune Sohn
- 19
- 20
On the use of Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry (LA-TOF-MS) for the isotopic analysis Palladium deposits.
Alexandre Uzel - 21
Observing Oxidation State and Structure of Multivalent Species Containing Mixed Alkali Borosilicate Glasses
Casey Walsh
- 22
- 23
Organization
The 50th SBNWM symposium is hosted by Institute of Separative Chemistry of Marcoule (ICSM) and CEA/ISEC (Institut des sciences et technologies pour une économie circulaire des énergies bas carbone) with support of the Chemistry Department of Montpellier University.
