European BENCHPAR project

The following organisations are gratefully acknowledged for their financial support (alphabetical order) the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission the Commissariat a I Energie Atomique the European Commission through the BENCHPAR project under Contract FIKW-CT-2000-00066 the Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire the Japan Nuclear Fuel Cycle Development Institute, the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate. 

The financial supports by the European Commission through the BENCHPAR project (FIKW-CT-2000-00066) and the Swedish Nuclear Inspectorate (SKI) through the DECOVALEX III project are greatly acknowledged. 

The authors are grateful to their respective funding organizations (Ontario Power Generation to AECL and SKB to CTH) for their financial support and technical advice. Financial support from the European Commission to CTH in the BENCHPAR project is also acknowledged. 

This work was undertaken as part of the collaborative programme involving the international project DECOVALEX III and the BENCHPAR project funded by the European Unions 5 Framework Programme. We acknowledge helpful discussions with our colleagues Tin Chan, Rolf Christiansson, Thomas Wallroth and Patrik Vidstrand. 

This work is part of the INERIS contribution to work package 3 (WP3) of the European project BENCHPAR. The purpose of WP3 is the better understanding the impact of upscaling on the THM processes on Performance Assessment of nuclear waste disposal problems. 

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