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Follow on Google News | Marketforce's Nuclear Decommissioning Forum takes a pioneering strategy-led approach to the sectorWith senior figures taking an in-depth look at the key strategies driving change, Marketforce’s Nuclear Decommissioning Forum promises to remove the project-focused lens often applied to the sector.
By: Marketforce 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’ End
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