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The disposal of waste, including radioactive waste (from the nuclear power industry and other nuclear applications) and carbon dioxide (to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and associated greenhouse warming) constitutes one of the major environmental technical challenges of the 21st Century and has great importance on the national and international level.

This year the STFC's Global Challenges Network, GeoRepNet (Geological Repository Network) and RATE (Radioactivity and the Environment, NERC) program will combine forces for a joint meeting on Geological Repositories.

This meeting will focus on linking science and technology in Geological Repositories. The scientific objectives of this meeting will be to present and discuss existing knowledge in the key challenge areas and identify unknown areas. It will have a major focus on presenting and discussing existing technology that can be used to study major geophysical, geochemical and biological processes related to geological repositories.

We also aim to identify technology to be translated from the space science sector, astronomy and particle and nuclear physics to the geological repository community and to seek new technology paths for technology translation.

Registration

• You can register for this meeting at
  www.astrobiology.ac.uk/events/georepnet-meeting
  
  There is no registration fee.

Accommodation

For nearby Accommodation please see the links below:

• Within Keyworth
• Outside Keyworth
• Nottingham city centre
  (there is a bus from the city centre to Keyworth - Keyworth Connection:
  • Jury's Inn
  • Holiday Inn
  • IBIS