The Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) Research Support Office (RSO) is a newly formed body harnessing UK university capabilities in geological disposal science and technology. It has been established to:
- Deliver world-leading research to underpin the safety cases for the geological disposal facility by drawing on the best of the UK academic research community
- Support UK universities in accessing geodisposal research funding to underpin our geological disposal programme
- Develop the next generation of geodisposal research expertise to underpin the national programme.
The University of Manchester, in partnership with the University of Sheffield, will support the delivery of independent evidence-based research to underpin the development of a UK Geological Disposal Facility – following a £2.5 million grant secured from (RWM).
More information on the research collaboration can be found here.
Outline Agenda
- Introduction to the RWM geodisposal research strategy and RSO activities
- Introduction to the RSO funding portiolio and calls starting October 2020
- Announcement of 2021 PhD project funding call
- Case study presentations of RWM funded research
- “Interplay between research and safety assessment in the Swedish programme for spent nuclear fuel ” – A plenary talk by Dr Allan Hedin, Manager of Safety Assessments ,SKB, Sweden
- Research proposal development workshop: Gas Generation
Launch Event Flyer
Plenary Speaker Biography: Allan Hedin
Allan Hedin is a senior company specialist in postclosure safety assessments at the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co., SKB. He was the manager for the safety assessment SR-Site that forms a central part of SKB’s licence application to build a final repository for spent nuclear fuel at the Forsmark site in south central Sweden. He has been a member of the NEA Integration Group for the Safety Case since it was established in 2000 and has been involved in several international efforts to develop the safety case, as an implementer and as a reviewer. Allan Hedin received an M.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Uppsala in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Ion Physics from the same university in 1987. He has been with SKB since 1994.
Contact
Samantha Roberts: rso-gdf@manchester.ac.uk
