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.

Thematic areas:

:: Research on 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 perform-ance and safety as-sessment, development of alternative measures of performance and better governance)

:: Partitioning and transmutation and other concepts

• Partitioning and transmutation
• Concepts to produce less waste

The indicative budget allocated to Management of radioactive waste for the duration of FP6 is EUR 90 million.

Links to previous activities:

Work undertaken on FP5 related to this area can be found under the Specific Programme Research and Training in the Field of Nuclear Energy at
/fp5-euratom/