Dr Alastair Clark joins MCM
11th April 2014Alastair Clark joined the MCM team based in the UK office. He studied at the University of Manchester obtaining his PhD in low level radioactive waste repository waste-form post-closure evolution and performance. Alastair joined after 8 years at the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority where he was part of the engineering team tasked with the …
read moreWelcome 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 morePresentation at Swiss Nuclear Society
14th January 2014MCM was invited to give a presentation at SGK (Swiss Nuclear Society) on our work in Japan, especially that related to the accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi. Download the presentation here.
read morePresentation to Swiss Ambassador
15th December 2013MCM was invited to give a presentation to the Swiss ambassador and staff at the Swiss embassy in Tokyo on MCM`s work in Japan, in particular, the work carried out in support of Fukushima.
read moreThe Disposal of Radioactive Wastes Underground
22nd October 2013The publication entitled The disposal of radioactive wastes underground by Neil Chapman and Alan Hooper was selected on the basis of being one of the top five articles published in Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association which received the highest number of downloads from the ScienceDirect platform. To view the publication click on Read more. …
read moreNew 2-year contract with Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
22nd October 2013MCM together with our partners, Integrated Decision Management Solutions and Project Time & Cost International, have been awarded a two year framework contract to supply the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority with Specialist Review and Oversight of Technical and Strategic R&D work.
read moreJAEA/SUERC International Workshop
22nd October 2013MCM helped organise and document the JAEA/SUERC international workshop on “Fukushima recovery – understanding, modelling and managing radiocaesium decontamination” held in Fukushima city. The record of the meeting will be published on the JAEA website. JAEA Announcements TOPICS Fukushima 22 Nov. 2013 No.33 Agreement between Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Scottish Universities Environmental …
read moreCAST Project
22nd September 2013MCM are a participant in the CAST Project, which has recently been part funded by the European Commission. CAST (CArbon-14 Source Terms) investigates the generation of carbon-14 from different waste forms including steels, zircaloy, ion-exchange resins and irradiated graphite. MCM are involved with the technical coordination of this project with NDA RWMD.
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
22nd August 2013Susie 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 morePlugs and Seals (DoPAS) Project
22nd March 2013Support to NDA in European Commission IGD TP Demonstration of Plugs and Seals (DoPAS) project.
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 more
members of:
