Nuclear Waste Disposal Project Department

Nuclear Waste Disposal Project teaches students to design and evaluate deep geological repositories for the safe disposal of high-level radioactive waste. Students learn the principles of multi-barrier safety systems, run 10,000-year-scale performance-assessment simulations built on host-rock characterization data and engineered-barrier models, and learn to validate long-term predictions against natural-analogue case studies. Given the extraordinarily long time horizons involved, graduates emerge with both rigorous quantitative reasoning about uncertainty and the regulatory competency this field demands.

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⭐ Curie

Chair

💡 Radioactivity & Nuclear Waste Geological Disposal

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 13

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1863–1934

Jakob Sederholm

Researcher

💡 Founder of Precambrian shield petrology; pioneered the scientific study of granite and gneiss (migmatite) formation in the Fennoscandian Shield

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1902–1989

Ralph Early Grim

Researcher

💡 Father of clay mineralogy, author of the standard textbook "Clay Mineralogy"

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1884–1971

Theodor Svedberg

Researcher

💡 Invented the analytical ultracentrifuge and founded quantitative colloid/particle-size characterization science; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1926)

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1889–1980

Ulick Richardson Evans

Researcher

💡 Father of the modern electrochemical theory of metallic corrosion

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1880–1941

Herbert Freundlich

Researcher

💡 Formulated the Freundlich adsorption isotherm describing empirical adsorption equilibrium (1906)

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1903–1987

Andrey Kolmogorov

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern axiomatic probability theory ("Grundbegriffe der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung", 1933)

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1901–1992

Francis Perrin

Researcher

💡 Led the scientific investigation confirming the Oklo natural nuclear fission reactor (1972) as High Commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission

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1860–1937

Johannes Walther

Researcher

💡 Formulated Walther's Law of facies, foundational to interpreting evaporite depositional sequences including salt formations

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1774–1836

William Henry

Researcher

💡 Formulated Henry's law of gas solubility in liquids (1803)

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1821–1894

Hermann von Helmholtz

Researcher

💡 Formulated the general law of conservation of energy (1847)

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1835–1918

Christian Otto Mohr

Researcher

💡 Developed Mohr's circle and the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion for material/rock failure

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1879–1965

Samuel C. Lind

Researcher

💡 Father of modern radiation chemistry; pioneered the study of chemical effects of radioactivity (radiolysis)

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1915–2006

Alvin M. Weinberg

Researcher

💡 Coined the "Faustian bargain" of nuclear energy and proposed long-term institutional stewardship frameworks for nuclear waste