Radioactive waste management forum

Radioactive waste management forum

BANGKOK (AP): Officials from nine East Asian countries began on Tuesday a two-day regional seminar on radioactive waste management to try to establish a future vision and management practices in the field.

About 30 scientists, engineers and administrators are attending the conference, which deals with the exchange of information and regulatory and technical aspects of nuclear waste disposal. It is the fourth such meeting, conducted in the framework of a Japanese-funded initiative on Asian regional nuclear cooperation.