The Implementing Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste Technology Platform (IDG TP) has published its Master Deployment Plan 2014, the goal of which is to outline and steer cooperative actions arising from its Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), to assist IGD-TP Executive Group members and other participants in communicating progress, and to provide opportunities to engage in Joint Activities.
These Joint Activities aim to promote joint research, development and demonstration (RD&D) in the geological disposal of nuclear waste. To date, collaboration within the framework of the IGD-TP has initiated a total of 12 Joint Activities, which have developed a total of 9 Technical Projects that are on-going, with new Technical Projects in the pipeline.
According to the document, implementation of Joint Activities has reached a stage where the IGD-TP needs to extend its planning horizon beyond 2016 in its future Master Deployment Plan. The work to extend the planning horizon has been initiated by the Executive Group and the Secretariat by carrying out an assessment of the IGD-TP's SRA, which will be completed in 2014.
The updated Master Deployment Plan includes outlines of Joint Activities as they stood at the end of 2013. It also takes into account the outcomes of the IGD-TP's 4th Exchange Forum held in Prague in October 2013 and the decisions taken during the Executive Group meetings in 2013 and in 2014.