UK Long-Term Nuclear Waste Management: Next steps

INTRODUCTORY SESSION – THE CURRENT POSITION
1: Implementation recommendations by CoRWM (Andrew Blowers, CoRWM)
2: Planning/timeline for a repository (Bruce McKirdy, UK Nirex)
3: Governmental position

SESSION 1: INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES
1: Finnish case study (Juhani Vira, Posiva Oy, Finland)
2: French case study (Fréderic Plas, ANDRA)
3: Swiss case study (Jürg Schneider, NAGRA)
4: EC ESDRED project (Wolf Seidler, ANDRA)

SESSION 2: GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY
1: Potential Geological settings in the UK (Richard Shaw, BGS)
2: Repository design concepts (Alan Hooper, UK Nirex)
3: Geological Disposal Environments – Their Characteristics (Tim McEwen, McEwen Consulting)
4: Phasing, retrievability and early/late closure (Fiona Neall, Neall Consulting Limited)
5: The Deep Borehole Option for Spent Nuclear Fuels (Fergus Gibb, University of Sheffield)

SESSION 3: LONG TERM SAFETY, CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROCESSES
1: Regulation of a future long-term radioactive waste management facility (Steve Griffiths, HSE)
2: Technical status of the programme for a deep geological repository: A regulatory view (Andy Baker, EA)
3: Engineered barriers and post-closure near-field interactions (Patrik Sellin, SKB)
4: Far field interactions and Transport (Peter Warwick, Loughborough University)
5: Long-term stability and containment: key geosphere attributes and reassurance (Charles Curtis, Nirex)

SESSION 4: WASTES FOR STORAGE AND DISPOSAL INCLUDING MONITORING
1: Key waste issues as seen by NDA (Phil Davis, NDA)
2: UK LLW Management Strategy – Determining the future for LLW Disposition (Alan Wareing, Nexia Solutions)
3: Plutonium disposition (Joe Small, Nexia Solutions)
4: The CoRWM Inventory (Mark Dutton, CoRWM)
5: Problem Wastes, Wasteforms and Knowledge Gaps (Bill Lee, Imperial College, London)
6: Waste from new build (Adrian Bull, Westinghouse)
7: EU Framework VI project on Near-Field Processes (Neil Hyatt, Sheffield University)

SESSION 5: IMPLEMENTATION
1: Waste Package management (Gráinne Carpenter, UKAEA)
2: Above ground storage of waste (Peter Wylie, BNG)
3: Experience of stakeholder engagement (Beth Taylor, UKAEA)
4: Skills/training/funding needs (Francis Livens, University of Manchester)
5: International repository operation experience (David Kessel, DoE, USA)

Further information:

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