Cooperative Approaches to the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
6th November 2015On 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 …
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28th October 2015On October 28th Charles McCombie was a panelist in The Hague at a seminar on “Ethics and involving the public in nuclear waste management”. At the meeting, the contributors to three new publications presented an overview of their work. These were: the book “The Ethics of Nuclear Energy. Risk, Justice and Democracy in the …
read more1st Chemistry in Energy Conference
12th July 2015MCM gave a presentation at the 1st Chemistry in Energy Conference, in Edinburgh: “Chemical challenges for safety cases supporting geological disposal of radioactive waste”. Two posters were also presented: “Remediation of sites contaminated from nuclear energy generation activities” and “Use of advanced tools to manage the chemical complexity of carbon capture projects”.
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6th May 2015Wolfgang Kickmaier was invited to the AMNT Conference Germany. “What can Germany learn from other national radioactive waste management programmes ?”
read moreManagement options for Fukushima corium
14th August 2014MCM was invited to give a paper on “Management options for Fukushima corium” at the IUMRS-ICA conference in Japan.
read moreManaging Nuclear Power on a Dynamic Earth
11th May 2014Neil Chapman lectured at the Geological Society of London’s 5th society lecture for 2014 “Managing Nuclear Power on a Dynamic Earth”, which took a look at what scientists are doing to pinpoint and assess tectonic hazards to nuclear facilities worldwide. Link to lecture on Youtube
read morePractical Aspects of Repository Engineering for Disposal of Spent Fuel/HLW in Sedimentary Environments
1st November 2011In recent months MCM participated as lecturers for various ITC courses: “Practical Aspects of Repository Engineering for Disposal of Spent Fuel/HLW in Sedimentary Environments”, Peine, Germany; “Safety Principles”, Brugg, Switzerland; “Fundamentals of Geological Disposal”, Prague, Czech Republic.
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