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International Collaborations Activities on Disposal in Argillite R&D: Bentonite Barrier Characterization Studies and Modeling Investigations

Jove Colon, Carlos F.; Ho, Tuan A.; Coker, Eric N.; Lopez, Carlos M.; Kruichak, Jessica N.; Mills, Melissa M.; Sanchez, Amanda C.; Hadgu, Teklu H.

This interim report is an update of the report Jove Colon et al. (2019; M4SF-19SN010301091) describing international collaboration activities pertaining to FEBEX-DP and DECOVALEX19 Task C projects. Although work on these two international repository science activities is no longer continuing by the international partners, investigations on the collected data and samples is still ongoing. Descriptions of these underground research laboratory (URL) R&D activities are given in Jové Colón et al. (2018; 2019) but will repeated here for completeness. The 2019 status of work conducted at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) on these two activities is summarized along with other international collaboration activities in Birkholzer et al. (2019).