Analysis of coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical processes in Callovo-Oxfordian clay rock: From full-scale experiments to the repository scale

Management of energy waste such as high-level waste (HLW) disposal in deep geological repositories is one of most pressing challenges in the context of nuclear energy. The general research question addressed in the present work is how to represent coupled physical processes after the emplacement of heat-emitting waste in such a repository in claystone at multiple scales by numerical models and how can they validated by experimental results in...