Nature 310, 537 - 540 (16 August 1984); doi:10.1038/310537a0

The geology of nuclear waste disposal

W.F. Fyfe^*, V. Babuska^†, N.J. Price^‡, E. Schmid^§, C.F. Tsang, S. Uyeda^¶ & B. Velde^£

^*Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7; ^†Ceskoslovenska Akademie VED, Geofyzikalni Ustav, 14131 Praha 4, Czechoslovakia; ^‡Department of Geology, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK; ^§Anglo American Corp., Johannesburg 2001, South Africa; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, California 94720, USA; ^¶Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113, Japan; ^£Laboratoire de Petrographie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75230 Paris Cedex 5, France.

An ICSU committee on the geological disposal of high-level radioactive wastes has concluded that century-long interim storage is essential and that disposal in subduction trenches and ocean sediments deserves more attention.

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