Welcome Dr Julia West
11th March 2014We welcome Dr Julia West as an associate of MCM. Julia has a PhD in Geomicrobiology with over 30 years’ experience working on diverse projects relating to how humans use the geological environment particularly for waste disposal and is a great addition to our team.
read moreReview of JAPC’s Tsuruga nuclear power plant
22nd August 2013MCM manage an international review group looking into possible active faulting beneath JAPC’s Tsuruga nuclear power plant on the west coast of Japan and present their findings at a major symposium in Tokyo.
read moreAttachment to JAEA Fukushima Office
Susie Hardie began her attachment to JAEA Fukushima office as a visiting research fellow which ends at the end of October 2013.
read moreTara Beattie joins MCM
22nd May 2013Tara Beattie (Lewis) joined the MCM team based in the UK office. She studied at the Loughborough University Chemistry School obtaining her PhD in Environmental Radiochemistry. Technical areas of high competency include engineered barrier system performance, particularly their chemical evolution and radionuclide behaviour in complex environmental systems.
read moreGeological Disposal of Radwastes Training
22nd April 2013One week training course on Geological Disposal of Radwastes in cooperation with Okayama University in Korea for the International School for Geoscience Resources of Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM).
read moreElizaveta Tumarkina (Klein) joins MCM
1st October 2012Elizaveta Tumarkina (Klein) has joined our team in Switzerland after successfully completing her doctoral examination at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH, Zürich.
read moreKnowledge Transfer
1st July 2012MCM is helping transfer of knowledge to young professionals and to new nuclear programmes. The modules on geological disposal at the Summer Institute of the World Nuclear University in Oxford, UK, were again this year presented by MCM staff. In addition, approaches to cooperation between countries were described and discussed at the INPRO Dialogue …
read moreIntegrated Management of TRU waste
6th June 2012Invited colloquium at JAEA Tokai on “Integrated management of TRU waste”.
read moreTechnical Advisory Panel
1st June 2012MCM is contracted to provide the Chairman (Neil Chapman) and Secretariat (Ellie Scourse) for the newly-formed Technical Advisory Panel of NDA’s Radioactive Waste Management Directorate.
read moreArius Association
5th April 2012MCM staff supporting the Arius Association which promotes multinational and regional cooperation on storage and disposal helped to organise and run a meeting of MENA countries in Abu Dhabi. This meeting, co-organised by the IAEA, will be followed up by a second MENA regional meeting in Tunisia in November 2012, with the prime organiser …
read moreSafety cases for the direct disposal of spent fuel
1st December 2011MCM is contracted by Obayashi to provide an international overview of concepts and associated safety cases for the direct disposal of spent fuel.
read moreProfessor to Okayama University
5th November 2011Ian McKinley invited as visiting professor to Okayama University.
read moreSusie Hardie joins MCM
1st November 2011Susie Hardie joined our team in Switzerland from the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre in East Kilbride. She studied at the Universtiy of Glasgow and her background is in the use of stable and radioisotopes to study environmental processes. Her current focus is on the on-going remediation work in Japan.
read moreReview of Alternative Radioactive Waste Management Options
1st October 2011MCM is awarded NDA contract to prepare a Review of Alternative Radioactive Waste Management Options.
read moreOPERA geological disposal programme
Neil Chapman and Charles McCombie have become advisors to and reviewers of the OPERA geological disposal programme which has been started in the Netherlands.
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