Advancing waste management through consensus, policy updates and global strategies

Take a look at the Radioactive Waste Management Conference agenda.

Delegates who attended this conference benefited from practical insights into:

• Deep geological disposal associated with spent fuel, intermediate waste and high level waste including deep geological repositories
  
• Very low level and low level waste issues including transport, packaging and characterisation
  
• How radioactive waste is managed differently in countries such as:
  
  France
  Bure Facility – ANDRA’s the deep geological repository which will allow high level and long-lived intermediate level waste to be safely stored for an extreme length of time
  
  USA
  Yucca Mountain – the technical and operational processes and the true cost and legal ramifications of this region
  
  UK
  Kings Cliffe – what the authorisation process involved as well as the disposal methods and future challenges for the Site.
  
  Sweden
  SKB International's operating experience and facilities in Sweden and public acceptance

• How to build understanding through stakeholder engagement and open communication with the public
• Whether there should be a uniform standard for dealing with legislation and policy dealing with radioactive waste management

Tuesday 1 November 2011

This interactive workshop covered key topics including:

• Waste management forecasts and how they can benefit your operations
  
  
• Methodologies to determine fixed prices for nuclear waste disposal
  
  
• Dealing with the uncertainties of cost estimates and the impact this can have on final disposal costs

Your workshop leaders included:

Alastair Laird
Project Time & Cost

Richard Peters
Project Time & Cost

David Rossiter
Low Level Waste Repository Ltd

Ciara Walsh
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority