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R&D in Support of Repository Implementation Do We Need Any More?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Charles Mccombie
Charles Mccombie*
Affiliation:
Nagra Wettingen, Switzerland
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Abstract

Is there any need for further scientific and technical development work in the field of waste management? Radically different views on this provocative question have been put forward by opposing sides in the nuclear debate. P. Slovik [1] quotes various leaders on the nuclear community who for years have been claiming that waste management has no unsolved technical problems. At the recent public hearing in England [2], on the other hand, Greenpeace and others convinced the Inspector that, despite a GBP 200 million site characterisation programme with many deep boreholes, UK-Nirex still knew too little about the deep hydrogeology to justify even the sinking of an exploratory shaft at Sellafield. Where does the truth lie?

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 506: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXI , 1997 , 33
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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