Nirex and the Great Denouement
Geological Society, London, Memoirs Chapter 20 Nirex and the great denouement Geological Society, London, Memoirs 2002; v. 25; p. 271-287 doi:10.1144/GSL.MEM.2002.025.01.21 Email alerting click here to receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article service Permission click here to seek permission to re-use all or part of this article request Subscribe click here to subscribe to Geological Society, London, Memoirs or the Lyell Collection Notes Downloaded by University of Glasgow on 4 October 2010 © 2002 Geological Society of London Chapter 20 Nirex and the great denouement We saw in Chapter 14 how the British Geological Survey came repository for the permanent disposal of nuclear waste (see Fig. under pressure in various ways in the 1980s - the 'Thatcher years'. 20.1). The intended rocks to receive the waste were of BVG type, Some of its basic funding was diverted to the universities, and one under the sedimentary cover of the west Cumbrian coastal plain. of the reasons for the collaboration between the Survey and the There was, of course, considerable BGS expertise available with universities was that it provided a means whereby it could recoup such rocks, given that the Lakeland Project had been active for its 'own' money, so to speak, via the NERC-funded PhD stu- several years. Thus it was that several Surveyors, including David dentships. However, that in itself was insufficient, and increasingly Millward, Eric Johnson, Brett Beddoe-Stephens, Andrew the Survey had to go into the market to help fund its activities Chadwick and David Evans (a geophysicist), who had all worked through contract or consulting activities.
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