Objective The European Commission has supported in its subsequent R&D programmes on Management and Storage of Radioactive Waste, a large number of research activities on the characterisation of potential host rocks for deep geological repositories. Such R&D programmes have been carried out also in countries non-member of the European Union. Coming to the end of its fourth five-year (1990-1994) R&D programme, the Commission would like to have carried out a review study and evaluation of the state-of-the-art on current relevant knowledge. The objective of this evaluation will be to provide the Commission with advice on the most important issues where further work is required. The review study will focus on deep geological disposal of long-lived waste in saliferous, argillaceous and crystalline rock formations.Work programme: The following questions are to be addressed: - Scope of the available data- What information is still needed?- What information is not needed?- Where are the major uncertainties?- How could the information be obtained?- Are there site-specific aspects?- How can the EC help to coordinate further work? The findings will be presented in a report of about 150 pages target length. Fields of science engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesnuclear engineeringnuclear waste management Programme(s) FP2-RADWASTOM 4C - Specific research and technical development programme (Euratom) in the field of management and storage of radioactive waste, 1990-1994 Topic(s) A.4 - Disposal of radioactive waste: research to back-up the development of underground repositories Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator Intera Information Technologies Ltd EU contribution No data Address Chiltern House 45 Station Road RG9 1AT Henley-on-Thames United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Antea SA France EU contribution No data Address 45061 Orléans See on map Total cost No data ENEL.HYDRO SPA Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Pastrengo 9 24068 SERIATE See on map Total cost No data Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources Germany EU contribution No data Address Stilleweg 2 30655 Hannover See on map Total cost No data
