CHARLES MCCOMBIE AND NEIL CHAPMAN REPORT AUTHORS FOR AUSTRALIAN ROYAL COMMISSION
27th May 2016One of the most important developments in radioactive waste management to have occurred recently is the initiative by the Government of South Australia to consider the pros and cons of establishing nuclear fuel cycle facilities in the State. South Australia is among the world’s major suppliers of uranium and the government wished to consider …
read moreUK NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING R&D FRAMEWORK CONTRACT
16th May 2016MCM is part of a successful Arup-led consortium which has been awarded a 4 year nuclear decommissioning R&D framework contract to support the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Read full article here
read moreMCM INTERNATIONAL TO CLOSE, NEW UK COMPANY TO BEGIN
26th April 2016MCM formally announces organisational changes that will consolidate and strengthen the leadership position it has attained in the field of radioactive waste management. On 1st May 2016, a new UK domiciled company, MCM Environmental Services Ltd, begins operations, trading under the name MCM. All ongoing contracts and project work for UK clients will be administered and managed by the new UK …
read moreNew Nuclear Engineering International Article
24th November 2015Fukushima clean-up: Status and Lessons Learned Remediation work at Fukushima enables the return of evacuees and provides a valuable resource for disaster planning and contaminated site remediation. By K. Miyahara, I.G. McKinley, K. Saito, K. Iijima & S.M.L. Hardie. To read the full article please click on Read More and follow the link. …
read moreIAEA Workshop
16th November 2015On 17th November 2015, Charles McCombie lectured at the IAEA in Vienna to representatives from countries that are introducing or expanding nuclear power. The workshop was on radioactive waste and spent fuel management. His three talks covered formulating a waste strategy, deep disposal technology and financing the back-end. Participants were from Bangladesh, India, Jordan, …
read moreIan McKinley TV Interview
12th November 2015Ian McKinley gives a live interview to France 24 on the restart of the first nuclear reactor at the Kyushu Electric Power plant in Sendai, Japan.
read moreCooperative 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 …
read moreEthics and involving the public in nuclear waste management
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 moreInternational Technical Workshop on Deep Borehole Disposal
22nd October 2015Dr Wolfgang Kickmaier participated at the International Technical Workshop on Deep Borehole Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste in Washington in October 2015. The workshop was organised by the Nuclear Waste Management Technical Review Board and besides Members of the Board and the DOE, SANDIA and other US National Labs, experts from the UK, Germany, Check …
read moreTsunamis: Geology, Hazards and Risks
28th September 2015Ellie Scourse and Neil Chapman were co-convenors of an international symposium on ‘Tsunamis: Geology, Hazards and Risks’, held at the Geological Society of London on 25th September as its prestigious annual Arthur Holmes Meeting for 2015. The meeting was organised in collaboration with the Geological Society of Japan. More than eighty participants attended from …
read moreMCM part of international consortium
14th July 2015MCM is part of an international consortium which has secured a € 1.75M contract to support the safe disposal of low and intermediate level waste (LILW) in Iraq.
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”.
read moreMCM welcomes Ian Upshall
1st June 2015We welcome Ian Upshall as an associate of MCM. Read Ian’s full profile under our Associates section.
read moreKey experts on EC Project
14th May 2015MCM (Wolfgang Kickmaier and Ally Clark) acting as key experts in the EC project “Feasibility Study, Basic Design and Engineering Design of an Engineered Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility”. Click here to read full press release.
read morePLANDIS R&D Guide
9th May 2015Tara Beattie was the main author of the PLANDIS R&D Guide prepared by the IGD-TP for new nuclear programmes and presented by Charles McCombie in Pitesti, Romania.
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