JOPRAD meeting to take place
A JOPRAD regional meeting is to take place in order to inform on, engage and involve countries with less advanced geological disposal programmes in the process of joint programming (JP) and its preparation within the JOPRAD project.
JOPRAD, a co-ordination and support action funded under the Horizon 2020 EURATOM programme, aims to prepare the conditions for the setting up of a potential Joint Programming on Radioactive Waste Disposal.
Such JP would bring together, at the EU level, R&D activities implemented within national research programmes where synergy is identified. The joint R&D activities concern the geological disposal of spent fuel and other high activity long-lived radioactive waste, including waste management aspects linked with their disposal and other key activities (education and training, knowledge transfer, and guidance, as well as knowledge management).
In order to achieve the overall objectives, the meeting will address a number of questions, among them: why JP, what are the benefits for member states, what could be the domain of activities covered by the JP, what is expected from member state representatives for the implementation of the JP, what are the means and tools to implement JP, how will the JP be prepared and implemented, and what is expected from the member state representatives during the JOPRAD project?
The meeting will take place on 3-4 February and will be held at Marshal Garden Hotel in Bucharest, Romania.
