COVRA online seminar launching their new geological disposal research programme

The storage of radioactive waste at COVRA is not a final, long-term solution. After a hundred years of storage a large part of the waste will still be radioactive. According to the current state of science and technology, storage of this long-lived waste in stable geological layers in the deep underground is the only solution to ensure that the waste will still remain out of the human living environment after thousands of years. This is referred to as deep geological disposal. Research into deep geological disposal is an integral part of Dutch radioactive waste policy. Coordinating this is one of COVRA’s key tasks.

More information on geological disposal can be found at: www.covra.nl/en/radioactive-waste/deep-geological-disposal.