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Special Publication 561

This title is a work in progress. Selected articles are available online from the Lyell Collection.

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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 recognized preferred way forward. Research activities provide key inputs to the implementation of waste disposal. 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 geology, including evolution from past to present;
• understand how the sub-surface environment may respond to GDF construction and waste emplacement; and
• 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 volume collates research output from site investigation, experimental and modelling studies, as undertaken by a range of international programmes. The papers reflect the breadth and depth of scientific activities contributing to waste disposal.