Project sites

Task Force

The Äspö Modelling Task Force is a forum for the international organizations supporting
the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory to interact in the area of conceptual and numerical
modelling of groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured rock.

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Task Force on Engineered Barriers

The objective of the Task Force on Engineered Barriers is development of general
and effective tools for the advanced coupled THMC analysis of buffer and
backfill behaviour:

• Accounting for all relevant phenomena and their interactions,
  including interaction with host rock.
• Short term and long term.
• Computationally efficient, application to realistic cases.

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Geochemistry Research Group

The Geochemistry Research Group investigates the behaviour of chemical elements in soil, water, bedrock and biota. The aim is to increase the understanding of how major elements and trace elements are released, redistributed and transported in the environment.

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Greenland Analogue Project

To advance the understanding of the impact of glacial processes on the long-term performance of a deep geologic repository, the Greenland Analogue Project was established collaboratively by SKB, Posiva and NWMO, respectively. The Greenland ice sheet is considered to be an analogue of the conditions that could prevail in Canada and Fennoscandinavia during future glacial cycles.