The objective of this advanced training course is to provide state-of-the-art knowledge and insight into the geomicrobiology phenomena related to the geological disposal of radioactive waste. The focus will be on performance assessment of the geological disposal environment and the engineered barrier systems for high-level and long-lived intermediate level waste using the knowledge of geomicrobiology […]
Author: Petra Christensen

The third Project Annual Meeting is approaching!
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Lausanne! Do not forget to register.
First Announcement – Project Annual Meeting 3
The Mind project would hereby like to invite you and your colleagues to the third MIND Project Annual Meeting and Project Executive Committee meeting (PEC) which are scheduled to take place in Lausanne, Switzerland on the 7th to 9th of May with a planned city tour. We are also planning to have a pre-workshop as […]

Lecture on the Mind project results at the University of Granada
Hanna Miettinen from VTT (Finland) giving a lecture on the Mind project results for Biology students of Mohamed Merroun at the University of Granada.
Goldschmidt Conference Paris, France, August 13-18th 2017
MIND session nr 13n : Biogeochemical Processes and Radioactive Waste Disposal
Abstracts from the Project Annual meeting in Prague May 3-5 2017
The coordinators wish to thank all Minders for their contribution and Anders Lindblom for all work with the design of the volume. Keep up the excellent work! MIND_Abstract_2017
New deliverable available
The first year evaluation report is now available under Deliverables (D3.1).
MIND presented in the IGD-TP Newsletter #5
Read about the MIND project in Newsletter #5 from IGD-TP. Read more about IGD-TP on http://www.igdtp.eu/
PhD opportunity @ SCK•CEN, Mol (Belgium)
Within the MIND project, there is a PhD opportunity at SCK•CEN (Mol, Belgium). The aim of this project is to unravel the impact of microbial processes on cement in repository-like conditions and on bitumen (derivatives) at a high, cement-derived, pH. The expected outcome of both parts of the project is a detailed characterisation of microbial […]

Mont Terri HRL microbes
The microbial Community in the Microbial Activity experiment at the Mont Terri URL following H2 amendment into the BRC-3 borehole. Photo: Rizlan Bernier-Latmani

Mont Terri HRL microbes
An enrichment of a sulphate-reducing culture from the Long-Term Diffusion experiment at the Mont Terri URL. Photo: Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
Basic course in microbiology and nuclear waste disposal
The course is initiated by two pan-European programmes, Petrus-III and Microbiology In Nuclear waste Disposal (MIND). One important aim of the MIND project, granted by European Commission, is to raise awareness of the relevance of microbial issues in otherwise typically abiotic fields of ex-pertise, and to dissipate the knowledge gained in the MIND project to […]
New deliverable
Deliverable D3.2-1 Intermediate report on the methodology for the development of guidelines for risk communication is now available under Deliverables.
PETRUS-OPERA PhD and Early Stage Researcher Conference 2016
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