Quintessa is part of a consortium of 18 organisations led by Amec that has been awarded a framework agreement to supply the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (NDA RWMD) with research services in support of the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme.
It is planned that the framework will cover research on a broad range of areas including: wasteforms; containers; near field behaviour; geosphere evolution; gas generation and migration; radionuclide behaviour; criticality; and the biosphere.