Cooperative Approaches to the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

6th November 2015

On 3rd – 6th November Charles McCombie was a member of a consultant group that met at the IAEA in Vienna to prepare for an INPRO Study on “Cooperative Approaches to the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle”. The consultants from France, Ukraine, Russia, USA, Vietnam prepared Terms of Reference  for a major 3 year study being launched by the IAEA following an earlier Dialog Forum meeting on this topic. Important input for the meeting arrived in a timely fashion with the release of the latest IAEA document in this area – a report, titled FRAMEWORK AND CHALLENGES FOR INITIATING MULTINATIONAL COOPERATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY, for which Charles was one of the principles authors.