Integrated 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 moreIntegrated radioactive waste management policy and roadmap for the Emirates
10th May 2012MCM submitted to the Foreign Affairs Office of the United Arab Emirates a draft document outlining an integrated radioactive waste management policy and roadmap for the Emirates. The project was prepared over the past year and it relates to all waste management, treatment, storage and disposal facilities that will be needed in the UAE …
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 moreRemediation and disposal of Fukushima Radioactive waste
12th March 2012Invited presentation on “Remediation and disposal of Fukushima Radioactive waste” at a symposium on Fukushima after one year, held at Okayama University.
read moreSwedish Regulatory Authority awards contract
22nd February 2012The Swedish regulatory authority, SSM, awards MCM a contract to provide the lead geoscientific adviser for its review of the geological aspects of the SKB license application for the national spent fuel repository.
read moreWorkshop with GNS Science
22nd January 2012MCM staff were in Christchurch, New Zealand, co-organising a workshop with GNS Science on concealed active faults on behalf of NUMO, Japan, as part of the ongoing ‘TOPAZ’ project on probabilistic tectonic hazard analysis in geological disposal.
read moreMCM is contracted by Obayashi
1st January 2012MCM is contracted by Obayashi to support JAEA in the synthesis of Fukushima remediation demonstration and model projects, provide QA support and draft an English language summary of the work carried out.
read moreMCM is contracted by Quintessa
1st January 2012MCM is contracted by Quintessa to critically review scenario development / analysis and databases for radionuclide sorption and diffusion in the SKB SR-Site safety case.
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 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.
read moreJAEA for planning Fukushima remediation demonstration projects
5th October 2011MCM is contracted by Quintessa Japan to provide support to JAEA for planning Fukushima remediation demonstration projects.
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.
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