Publication of NUMO technical document

As the first milestone of HLW disposal in Japan, NUMO announced the start of open solicitation for volunteer municipalities for preliminary investigation areas to the public, with four documents published together as an information package on December 19, 2002. Following the information package, “Development of repository concepts for volunteer siting environments” (NTR-04-01) and “Scientific background and practical application of NUMO's repository siting factors” (NTR-04-02) have been published in Japanese as NUMO technical report series.

The concepts of the technical documents are as follows;

- To provide the scientific and technical basis to support the messages of information package

- To provide convincing arguments to experts

- To describe all the details related to siting factors

- To clarify the future direction for developing repository concepts tailored to the potential disposal sites

The English version of the technical documents is in preparation. It will be published on NUMO website in the near future. The technical documents have included technical achievements by NUMO so far presented at international conferences, workshops and journals (click here).

An open forum discussion further to publicise the technical documents will be held on June 1^st, 2004 at Tokyo, Japan. The forum is aiming at better understanding of the technical document for a wider technical perspective for the future development. The agenda of the forum is shown in below.