An on-site Task A meeting was held between the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI, Japan), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA at the Horonobe URL.
26 November 2024:
A suite of Task A in situ tracer experiments commenced at the 250 m Niche off the West Shaft No.1 with the first injection of a fluorescent tracer cocktail in the imposed dipole flow-field.
13-15 November 2024:
Two talks were given by JAEA on the simulation studies of excavation damaged zone (EDZ) evolution in Task B and Task C and a poster presentation was also made by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI, Korea) on the modelling of EDZ propagation in Task B at the Fourth International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media: Observation, Modeling, and Application (CouFrac2024), Kyoto, Japan.
24 September 2024:
The fourth Management Board meeting was held online.
11-13 September 2024:
The Planning Lecture dedicated to the HIP, including four key presentations, was organised and the Task B updates presentation was given at the 2024 Fall Meeting of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Sendai, Japan.
21-23 August 2024:
An on-site Task A meeting was held between the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI, Japan), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA at the Horonobe URL.
5-7 June 2024:
A joint task meeting was hosted in a hybrid in-person / virtual format in Horonobe over three days*. The third Management Board meeting was also held in a hybrid manner on 6 June 2024*.
*The meeting information is available on the NEA website: https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_93721/the-horonobe-international-project-ga
A Task B meeting was held between the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI, Korea) and JAEA at KAERI.
22-23 May 2024:
An on-site Task A meeting was held between the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA at the Horonobe URL.
14-16 May 2024:
An on-site Task C meeting was held between the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA at the Horonobe URL.
13-17 & 21 May 2024:
A series of Task A in situ work commenced at the 250 m Niche off the West Shaft No.1 with the drilling of boreholes for the planned tracer tests. Hydraulic pressure monitoring was then started in the drilled boreholes. Borehole TV (BTV) survey and calliper logging were also carried out.
6 March 2024:
The second Management Board meeting was held online.
18-19 December 2023:
An on-site Task A meeting was held at the Horonobe URL between the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA.
15 November 2023:
The first interim Management Board meeting was held online.
1-2 November 2023:
An on-site Task B meeting was held at the Horonobe URL between the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA.
13 October 2023:
An on-site Task B meeting was held at the Horonobe URL between the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI, Korea) and JAEA.
6 September 2023:
An on-site Task A meeting was held at the Horonobe URL between the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI, Japan), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA.
18 July 2023:
The State Enterprise Radioactive Waste (SERAW) signed the Agreement.
28 June 2023:
The first joint task meeting was held online.
28 April 2023:
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) signed the Agreement.
The Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) and the Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center (RWMC) signed the Agreement.
28 March 2023:
The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) signed the Agreement.
15 March 2023:
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) signed the Agreement.
10 February 2023:
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) signed the Agreement.
8 February 2023:
The Regia Autonomă Tehnologii pentru Energia Nuclear (RATEN) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) signed the Agreement.
The Agreement on the "OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Horonobe International Project (HIP)" commenced.
7 February 2023:
The British Geological Survey (BGS) signed the Agreement.
