Nuclear Waste Services has started its initial investigations to begin to understand the suitability of hosting a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) in Mid Copland. The desk-based studies will look at the feasibility of delivering a surface facility connected to the …
Last month, NWS employees travelled to Sweden to meet the organisation responsible for managing and disposing of the country’s nuclear waste, SKB. The privately owned company, which identified a site for a Geological Disposal Facility in 2009, hosted the NWS …
Last year, 44% of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group's nuclear graduate programme intake and 30% of apprentices across all companies were women. Statistics like these are fantastic and give me so much pride to be working in a dynamic …
The Government has made it clear that it sees the nuclear industry as vital to the country’s future security of energy supply and as an essential part of our net zero ambitions in the UK. And this is starting to …
The Government has made it clear that it sees the nuclear industry as vital to the country’s future security of energy supply and as an essential part of our net zero ambitions in the UK. And this is starting to …
Today, we have published the 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. As a nationally significant infrastructure project which will span …
The first GDF conference was a day of packed presentations and panels, all focused on a project of huge national significance, explains RWM's Head of Stakeholder Engagement Dr Rachel Roffe.
RWM’s Principal Geoscience Manager Sally Thompson and Stakeholder Engagement Manager Jane Cantwell visited Switzerland’s Mont Terri underground rock laboratory to join international colleagues in marking the 25th anniversary of this pioneering facility for research into geological disposal.
RWM Commercial Manager Paul Hinson reflects on a day of constructive discussions with potential suppliers to the UK GDF programme.
The Mayor of Copeland is encouraging all local residents to get involved in discussions about geological disposal, pointing out that much of the country's radioactive waste is already hosted in the area, at Sellafield.
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