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We commission scientific research and development, worth several million pounds a year, to support waste management.
This report has been prepared by British Geological Survey, under contract, in support of the UK Geological Disposal Facility Programme.
Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme sustainability ‘first look’ paper setting out how sustainability is, and will continue to be, at the heart of the GDF programme.
This document lists and links to a wide range of scientific and technical information relating to geological disposal in published reports, conference and journal papers.
This document forms part of the Waste Package Specification and Guidance Documentation (WPSGD), a suite of documents prepared and issued by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS).
New NWS report highlights significant and long-term opportunities for a local workforce and GDF to create more than 4,000 jobs within the first 25 years.
A review and update of the methodology for evaluating the release fractions (RFs) for Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) impact accident scenarios.
Site characterisation supports the evaluation of the potential for sites to meet safety requirements for a GDF for UK’s higher-activity radioactive wastes.
Overview of waste materials designated for disposal in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF)
The objective of this report is to document the current status of information available on generic disposal concepts.
The document suite includes a significant amount of supplementary information in support of the safety case.
The purpose of this report is to document the rationale behind the key design developments, to provide an overview of the engineering design work undertaken and provide support to the published design reports (Generic Transp…
This document lists a wide range of scientific and technical information relating to geological disposal in published reports, conference and journal papers.
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