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Energy Group - Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

Date:
04 - 06 June 2024
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Event type:
Conference, Hybrid, Specialist Group
Organised by:
Geological Society Events, Energy Group
Venue:
Hybrid In person at The University of Manchester and Virtual via Zoom
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED

Providing safe, permanent disposal of legacy and future higher activity radioactive waste is essential. Deep burial of waste in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is the internationally recognised preferred way forward.

Delivering a GDF requires input from a range of expertise, including geoscientific, environmental, social scientific, and engineering disciplines:

  • to develop an understanding of the surface, near-surface and deeper geological history – the pre-disposal ‘baseline’ conditions at any proposed site;
  • to understand (through surface-based investigations, natural analogue studies, modelling and experimentation) how the sub-surface environment may respond to GDF construction and waste emplacement; and
  • to understand how the disposal system (engineered barriers, host and surrounding geology, surface environment) may evolve on a timescale that could extend to one million years in the future. 

This conference welcomes contributions relevant to the geological disposal of radioactive waste. It will seek to encourage links between geoscience, environmental sciences, social sciences and engineering, in the context of international progress in the development of GDFs. Case histories, ongoing collaborative work and planned activities to enhance the state-of-the-art will be considered. Opportunities for closer working of various technical communities in relation to geological disposal will be discussed and promoted as appropriate.

Call for abstracts

Call for abstracts has now closed.

Field trip and Workshops

Further information to follow.

Keynotes

TBC

Convenors

Simon Norris – NWS, University of Manchester & EGC

Chris Jackson – Jacobs

Lin Ma – University of Manchester

Munira Raji – University of Plymouth & EGC

Eleanor Rollett – RPS & EGC

James Todd – Arup & EGC

Registration fees

In-Person:

Three-day rate: Fellow  £250
Three-day rate: Non-Fellow  £350
Three-day rate: Student Member
£50
Three-day rate: Student Non-Member
 £75
Three-day rate: Speaker     £225
Three-day rate: Corporate Affiliate £260

Virtual:

Three-day rate: Fellow  £150
Three-day rate: Non-Fellow  £225
Three-day rate: Student Member
£0
Three-day rate: Student Non-Member
 £30
Three-day rate: Speaker     £100
Three-day rate: Corporate Affiliate £130

In person registration is now sold out for for general attendance. If you wish to join the waiting list, please contact [email protected]

For virtual attendance, please click on the registration link below.

All speakers and poster presenters will contacted directly in due course. 


Register now