Dive Into Science Series
How is Nuclear Waste Disposed?
Date:
Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Time:
Speaker:
Dr Jonathon Turner, Chief Geologist at Nuclear Waste Services
Sign-up Form:
For:
About
With the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, the UK is increasing its usage of renewables, such as nuclear energy. As a result, the country has accumulated more than 500,000 cubic metres of high and intermediate-level nuclear waste since WW2 (Financial Times). High-tech solutions must be used in order to safely dispose radioactive waste - one of the most commonly used being deep geological disposal.
​
Topics Covered:
​
-
Why deep geological disposal is used
-
Role of the Nuclear Waste Services in the UK
-
The process of disposing nuclear waste
-
How the knowledge of rocks (Geology) is used in DGD
-
Careers in Geoscience
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
The talk will be hosted by Dr Jonathan Turner, the Chief Geologist at Nuclear Waste Services (NWS). He gained his PhD in Geology at the University of Bristol in 1988 and was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham for 14 years. He was the Deputy Chief Geologist at the oil and gas company BG Group, delivering industry-leading graduate training to geoscientists, and worked on the most technically ambitious production projects in the world (e.g. Brazil Pre-Salt and coalseam gas-to-LNG, Queensland).
