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An e-newsletter from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Geological Disposal Facility Workshop
12 November 2008
Around 50 people attended a two-day workshop to discuss strategies relating to the plans to implement a Geological Disposal Facility.
The workshop in Leeds formed part of the consultation exercise on our related Public, Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Strategy and our Sustainability Appraisal and Environmental Assessment Strategy for geological disposal.
NDA staff gave a number of context setting and informative presentations and delegates were divided into groups to discuss the aims and objectives of both strategies.
Alun Ellis, our Geological Disposal Facility Project Director, said:
“We know that engagement with communities and other stakeholders is a key element to making this project a success and to support the voluntarism approach being followed by Government. It’s vital that we communicate in ways that stakeholders want rather than what we think they want.
“We held this workshop to allow stakeholders to tell us first-hand how they would prefer to engage with us as the project progresses. We now need to sit down and consider everything we’ve heard as we move forward.”
The stakeholder discussions were chaired by independent facilitators and debate considered when communication and engagement was needed and how this should be done.
There was good opportunity for stakeholders to hear other people’s views and a chance for them to network.
The second day focused on the Government’s requirement that the NDA’s Geological Disposal Facility programme fully assesses and accounts for environmental impact and sustainability issues through the application of different statutory required assessments.
The workshops follow on from commitments made in the Government’s Managing Radioactive Waste Safely White Paper which says that stakeholders will be consulted during the development of our Strategies.
Responses can be submitted until the 30 November 2008 at:
http://www.nda.gov.uk/aboutus/geological-disposal/