OPERA geological disposal programme
1st October 2011Neil Chapman and Charles McCombie have become advisors to and reviewers of the OPERA geological disposal programme which has been started in the Netherlands.
read moreNDA Research Board
1st October 2011Neil Chapman, who has chaired the R&D Advisory Panel of NDA’s RWMD since its inception in 2009, has been appointed to the NDA Research Board.
read moreLow level liquid waste injection at Seversk
1st October 2011At the request of Swiss utility AXPO, an MCM representative attended the workshop in Russia reviewing low level liquid waste injection at Seversk.
read moreReview of SKB’s license application
1st September 2011MCM selected within 2 Framework areas for SSM, supporting the review of SKB’s license application.
read moreEllie Scourse joins MCM
1st August 2011Ellie Scourse from the UK has joined the MCM team; her details are included under the section ‘team’ on this website. Ellie has opened an office for MCM in Bristol, UK.
read moreInternational Support Team (IST)
1st July 2011MCM contracted to manage an International Support Team (IST), which provides support on special topics for NUMO’s geological disposal programme.
read moreBackend strategy for the UAE nuclear power programme
1st June 2011MCM has been contracted by UAE to help prepare backend strategy for the UAE nuclear power programme which is one of the most actively growing programmes worldwide.
read moreInternational Group
2nd February 2011Neil Chapman has chaired the International Group reviewing the work done by NUMO of Japan in its first ten years.
read moreLifetime Achievement Award
2nd February 2011MCM Partner, Charles McCombie, was being presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the WM 2011 Meeting in Phoenix.
read moreNDA selection of contractors
1st February 2011MCM has been successful in the NDA selection of contractors for Framework contracts. In the tender process started by NDA in the UK for companies to be selected for framework contracts, MCM has been successful with its partners in being included in the organisations for several of the Lots.
read more2010 James Watt Medal of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers
1st January 2011Neil Chapman was awarded the 2010 James Watt Medal of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers for a paper on UK radioactive waste disposal. The medal, named after James Watt, the Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor who died in 1819, was introduced by Robert Stephenson, President of the Institution in 1855-56.
read moreGGC and MENA
1st December 2010Neil Chapman and Charles McCombie were invited by the IAEA to present to GGC and MENA countries on the waste management challenges facing new nuclear countries.
read moreUS Blue Ribbon Committee
1st September 2010Charles McCombie was called upon to give presentations to the US Blue Ribbon Committee on ethical aspects of waste management and on the global status of waste disposal.
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