Marketforce's Nuclear Decommissioning Forum takes a pioneering strategy-led approach to the sector

LONDON - Jan. 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Covering the NDA's Strategy III, the development of best practice by SLCs, supply chain procurement strategy and the future of waste management, the Forum explores all of the major issues in decommissioning. Featuring comments from Baroness Verma, the Strategy and Technology Director of the NDA, and MD or Deputy-MD level speakers from Sellafield, DSRL, LLWR, Springfields and RWML, the event has a more senior line-up of industry speakers sharing a greater level of insight than any other decommissioning conference.

Being produced at a time of transition in decommissioning strategy, the need for the Nuclear Decommissioning Forum could not be more pronounced. With Sellafield being pressured to demonstrate a higher level of operational efficiency and a new wave of nuclear new build implying a potential skills shortage, it is an imperative that industry reassesses its processes and pushes forward with the UK’s extensive programme. There is a need to combine a focus on the specific and challenging projects that will beset the sector in the near future with a more holistic understanding of national activities and how they impact each other, and the Forum promises to deliver exactly this.

A key discussion that has previously seemed underdeveloped by industry intelligence involves the formulation of a long-term waste management strategy, but the Nuclear Decommissioning Forum will buck this trend. From manageable Low Level Waste through to the ‘zero-value asset’ that is the UK’s civil plutonium stockpile, the conference will ask: what is the future of waste management strategy? Can we safely keep burying waste at the LLWR site, where can we site a Geological Disposal Facility, and what is the best approach to take when considering plutonium?

From debating the economic efficacy of plant life extension through to the disposal of High Level Waste, Marketforce’s Nuclear Decommissioning Forum will leave no issue relevant to the decommissioning lifecycle uncovered. Join us at this inaugural event to be a part of this unprecedented investigation into the most important issues facing the industry!