Cherry is the Chief Scientific Advisor to Radioactive Waste Management and an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.
She has an MA in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge University and over 25 years’ experience in geological disposal.
Because higher-activity radioactive waste will remain hazardous to human health for a long time, potentially beyond the next Ice Age, disposing of it safely is both a social responsibility and a unique scientific challenge. All around the world, it’s agreed …
Gan y bydd gwastraff ymbelydrol actifedd uwch yn parhau yn beryglus i iechyd dynol am amser hir, o bosibl y tu hwnt i Oes yr Iâ nesaf, mae ei waredu yn ddiogel yn gyfrifoldeb cymdeithasol ac yn her wyddonol unigryw …
When you hear the term “radioactive waste”, what images come to mind? Radioactive waste actually comes in many different shapes and sizes. But despite what certain TV programmes would have you believe, one thing it definitely doesn’t look like is …
Pan ydych yn clywed am “wastraff ymbelydrol”, pa ddelweddau sy’n dod i’ch meddwl? Mae gwastraff ymbelydrol i’w weld mewn sawl ffordd. Ond er gwaetha’r hyn mae rhai rhaglenni teledu eisiau i chi ei gredu, yn sicr nid yw’n edrych fel …
Fe ddechreuais i fel Prif Ymgynghorydd Gwyddonol i Radioactive Waste Management yn 2011, ond fe ddechreuais i weithio ar raglen gwaredu daearegol y DU pan oeddwn i’n dechrau fy ngyrfa yng nghanol yr 1980au. Yn ystod y cyfnod hwn roeddwn …
I started as Chief Scientific Adviser for Radioactive Waste Management in 2011, but I first began working on the UK’s geological disposal programme when it was just starting in the mid-1980s. At the time, I was working in computer programming, …