Training programmes

Courses, seminars and workshops

SKB International has long experiences in conducting customised workshops, seminars and training courses in different topics. Experts from SKB covering different disciplines, e.g. long term safety, site investigations and selections, public relations, construction of URL, etc can be involved.

These activities are very efficient for organisations to build up internal competence.

Upcoming activities

Please find information of next years ”School of Geological Disposal – Siting and Site Investigations of a geological  repository for nuclear waste”, Östhammar, Sweden June 1 – 5, 2020, (SGD2020).

SGD2020 – Siting and Site Investigations

In year 2021 SKB International plan to arrange “School of Geological Disposal – Basis for developing safe geological disposal”, (SGD2021). The programme of this course will be similar to SGD2018 and SGD2019. More information will be available during 2020.

Examples of courses, workshops and seminars

Below find examples of customized events, e.g. workshops and seminars, that SKB International has arranged.

General
– Cost calculation and throughput workshop
– Workshop on R&D planning and prioritization

Waste forms
– Spent fuel behaviour
– Training programme for LILW disposal facility operation

Safety Assessment
– Defining reference and alternative cases
– Radionuclide transport
– Seismic impact on the repository
– Colloids
– Biosphere in safety assessment

Data Management and QA
– Data management

Engineered Barriers
– Clays and Bentonites in Spent Fuel and HLW Disposal
– EBS (Engineered Barrier Systems)
– Bentonite workshop
– Corrosion of copper canister

Repository design and technology
– Requirements development and management system and concept selections
– Disposal concept and detailed repository technology
– Design and Construction of an underground Research laboratory
– Techniques of in-situ tests

Siting and communication with stakeholders
– SKB and municipality experiences from cooperation in the siting process
– SKB’s experiences from early phase of siting process

Site investigations and modelling
– Site Descriptive Modelling (SDM))
– Training courses for groundwater modelling with DarcyTools
– Experiences from SKB’s site investigations in Laxemar
– Site characterisation workshop

Transportation
– Training Programme for sea based transportation of radioactive waste

Secondments
– Participation in the KBS-3H Multi Purpose Test
– Mechanical modelling of buffer and backfill
– Ground water flow modelling
– Mechanical evolution
– Biosphere assessment methodology for the safety assessment of repositories