Management of radioactive waste (EUR 90 million)

Main objectives:

Research to contribute to a broadly agreed approach to waste management and disposal; exploration of the technical and economic potential of concepts able to make better use of fissile material and generate less waste.

Research areas:

• Geological disposal

  • improvement of fundamental knowledge, developing and testing technologies (key physical, chemical and biological processes, interaction with barriers, long-term stability, etc.)
  • new and improved tools (models for performance and safety assessment, development of alternative measures of performance and better governance)
  
  

• Partitioning and transmutation and other concepts

  • Partitioning and transmutation
  • Concepts to produce less waste