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6-12 Long-Term Used Nuclear Fuel Waste Management - Geoscientific Review of the Sedimentary Sequence in Southern Ontario
Martin Mazurek, Rock-Water Interaction, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
This paper explores, from a geoscientific perspective, the suitability
of sedimentary rock for hosting a deep geological repository based on a
review of international waste management programs in sedimentary media
and a complilation of existing geoscientific information. Although
this report focuses on southern Ontario, the principal findings of the
review may be applicable to sedimentary rocks in similar geologic
settings within Canada. This paper was originally prepared for Ontario
Power Generation, and is published here with permission of both Ontario
Power Generation and the author.
Author Biographies
Martin Mazurek
Martin Mazurek received his PhD at the University of Basel (Switzerland) as a metamorphic petrologist.
Since then, he has been working for the Rock-Water Interaction Group
at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern
(Switzerland) in the fields of geochemistry and applied geology. He has
15 years of experience in the radioactive waste sector and participated
in three Swiss safety cases for Nagra (Swiss National Cooperative for
the Disposal of Radioactive Waste) targeted on crystalline and
sedimentary rocks. He also worked on projects dealing with geochemical
and structural aspects of underground rock laboratories (Grimsel,
Switzerland; Äspö, Sweden; Tournemire, France). He was manager of an
NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris) project dealing with the
understanding of features, events and processes (FEPs) in argillaceous
rocks and the relevance and representation of such FEPs in the safety
assessment of geological disposal sites for radioactive waste.
Martin Mazurek is father of a 4 years old son and lives with his
family in Basel, Switzerland. His main hobbies are mountaineering,
skiing and photography.
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