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Dr Charles McCombie has a PhD in
physics and is an international consultant in radioactive waste
management and Executive Director of Arius (Association for Regional
and International Underground Storage). For almost 20 years, he
was Director of Science & Technology at the Swiss national waste
disposal agency, Nagra, where he headed up interdisciplinary programmes
managing all types of radioactive wastes. He has devoted much time
to projects working towards international or regional repositories.
He provides advice to waste management projects worldwide (most
recently in Japan, Canada, USA, UK, Slovenia, South Africa and Germany)
and for international organisations (IAEA, NEA and EC). He is author/co-author
of over 150 papers and a recent book on this topic. Until December
2003, he was vice-chairman of the Board of Radioactive Waste Management
of the National Academies of the USA, and is currently Chairman
of the International Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) of the
Japanese waste management organisation (NUMO), and of the Nuclear
Research Advisory Committee of the Swiss National Paul Scherrer
Research Institute.
Professor Neil Chapman has a PhD
in geology and is Chairman of the ITC School of Underground Waste
Storage and Disposal, Switzerland, Research Professor of Environmental
Geology, Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield,
UK, Programme Director of the Arius Association, Switzerland, and
an independent consultant in radioactive waste management. He has
almost 30 years experience in the scientific and strategic aspects
of deep and shallow disposal of radioactive wastes, including provision
of advice at the highest level to industrial and governmental organisations
in many countries (most recently, Italy, Japan, Germany, South Africa,
Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA). He is author/co-author of over
one hundred papers and seven books on this topic. He has participated
in numerous national and international committees concerned with
the environmental impact of radioactive waste, in the technical
management of internationally funded projects, and as a visiting
expert. He is currently Chairman of the INSITE site investigation
overview group for the Swedish regulatory authority, SKI, and a
member of the International Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC)
of the Japanese waste management organisation (NUMO).
Dr Ian McKinley has a PhD in radiochemistry
and is an independent consultant with a background of more than
30 years working with the multi-disciplinary sciences underpinning
radioactive waste management. Until 2004, he was as a member of
the Management Team of Nagra (the Swiss national radioactive waste
management organisation) and Director of its International Services
and Projects Division, where he was responsible for the development
of an extremely successful international consulting service and
the operation of the underground Grimsel Test Site. He has contributed
to planning, implementation, documentation and review of all the
major geological disposal performance assessments in Switzerland
and Japan, initiated seminal geo-microbiology, radionuclide migration
and natural analogue projects in Europe and has extensive experience
in international expert groups, advisory panels and programme committees.
He is the author/co-author of three books and over 200 technical
papers, reports, articles and book chapters in waste management.
He is Technical Secretary of the International Technical Advisory
Committee (ITAC) of the Japanese waste management organisation (NUMO).
The MCM Principals offer outstanding experience and expertise in
areas that include:
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