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Research Priorities in Nuclear Waste Management: A View From the Far Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Philip J. Richardson*
Affiliation:
Geosciences for Development and Environment, Leicestershire, LE65 2LL, UK
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Abstract

First of all I would like to express my appreciation to the MRS for the opportunity to address this symposium. I am especially pleased to be speaking alongside Charles McCombie and Soren Norrby, who have both made me feel welcome whenever we have met in the past. I have been more active in Sweden over the last few years, as Soren will know. Perhaps it is now time I turned my attentions to Switzerland as well.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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