The fourth newsletter from the MIND-project is now available. Content of this Newsletter: Project Annual Meeting Work Package 1: ILW Organic Polymer Degradation Work Package 2: HLW Waste Form Degradation Work Package 3: Evaluating and Sharing the Knowledge Work Package 4: Project Management Download the Newsletter her.
Author: Anna Wahlstéen

Project Annual Meeting in Prag
Thank you for a fruitful week with a lot of interesting presentations and discussions. The abstract volume will soon be available electronically. Photo: Daniel Svensson
Newsletter 3 – march 2017
The third newsletter from the MIND-project is now available. Content of this Newsletter: Visit to Mont Terri Work Package 1: ILW Organic Polymer Degradation Work Package 2: HLW Waste Form Degradation Work Package 3: Evaluating and Sharing the Knowledge Work Package 4: Project Management – Project Annual Meeting
Open Consultation – JOPRAD
The JOPRAD project is a Coordination and Support Action funded by the EC through the Horizon 2020 Euratom programme. The goal of JOPRAD is to prepare the conditions for the setting up of a Joint Programme on Radioactive Waste Disposal. Open Consultation of the JOPRAD Programme Document There is an invitation to comment on the […]
Abstract for Goldschmidt 2017
The MIND project is in charge of one session at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris August 13-18 about Biogeochemical Processes and Radioactive Waste Disposal. Abstract deadline is April 1st. More information is found in the Goldschmidt session announcement.
MIND Project Annual Meeting – Registration
The MIND project would hereby like to invite all MIND members to the second MIND Project Annual Meeting and Project Executive Committee Meeting (PEC) which are scheduled to take place in Prague on the 3rd to 5th of May. Please fill out the registration form and return it no later than March 5th. Each participant is […]

MINDers at Mont Terri
The MIND project was invited to hold a session at the TD-315 Joint BN, GD, HT MA meeting in Saint Ursanne, February 7. A good number of MINDers represented the project with presentations and discussions with stakeholders. The session was chaired by Joe Small, NNL and the general introduction to the session was given by […]
Invitation to MIND partners
We are pleased to kindly invite you to contribute to the session “Biogeochemical processes at the microbe/clay interface and their synergy with radionuclide/organic interactions” at the XVI International Clay Conference (ICC), ICC 2017. The conference will be held from July 17 to 21, 2017 in Granada, Spain. We would like to remind you that the deadline […]
MIND session at Goldschmidt 2017
The MIND project is in charge of one session at the Goldschmidt conference in Paris August 13-18. Come and listen to the latest findings from the MIND project at our session 13n: Biogeochemical Processes and Radioactive Waste Disposal which is chaired and organized by the MIND members Andrea Cherkouk and Jonathan Lloyd. The MIND project […]
Invitation to MIND 2017 Workshop
The second MIND Project Annual Meeting and Project Executive Committee meeting are scheduled to take place in Prague, Czech Republic on the 3rd to 5th of May. The complete MIND 2017 Workshop will be hosted by the Technical University of Liberec and Centrum Vyzkumu in Rez. Read more about the Workshop.

Periodic Technical Reporting
These first 18 months have been very exciting due to the enthusiasm of all partners to start producing results and when compiling the quarterly reports of all WPs it becomes obvious that we have already accomplished a lot!
Deliverable 2.1 now available
Deliverable 2.1, Inventory of reducing gases, is now available under Deliverables.
New deliverables available
Two new documents are now available under Deliverables: Deliverable 2.2: Design, set up and operation of experimental equipment Deliverable 3.3: Modular microbiology education and training

Microbiology and disposal of radioactive wastes, October 2016
Between 24th and 28th of October 2016 Micans taught a course about how microorganisms can influence future final repositories for radioactive waste.Six participants from across Europe attended the course. For more information, please see: http://micans.se/microbiology-and-radwaste-course. The photo shows Methanosarcina barkeri visualised using FISH, fluorecent in situ hybridisation, using the CY-3 DNA probe specific for Archaea. Photo: Linda Johansson.
Newsletter September 2016
The second newsletter from the MIND-project is now available. Content of this Newsletter: 1.Work Package 1: ILW Organic Polymer Degradation 2.Work Package 2: HLW Waste Form Degradation 3.Work Package 3: Evaluating and Sharing the Knowledge 4.Work Package 4: Project Management Download the newsletter.