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23-11-2022 - Derisking Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste in the UK - NERC Call Now Open
Funding for a single consortium to research how lower strength sedimentary host rock environments might be impacted by the introduction of a geological disposal facility for radioactive waste.
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is working with the Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) (a division of the government-funded Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)) to fund a project to understand and predict how lower strength sedimentary host rock environments might be impacted by the introduction of a geological disposal facility (GDF) for radioactive waste.
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