Professor Peter Styles, Director of the Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Professor of Applied and Environmental Geophysics in the Applied and Environmental Geophysics Research Group, School of Physical and Geographical Sciences, has been invited to join the Geosphere Characterisation Panel of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency.
This is a high level panel overseeing all aspects of the geological aspects of underground disposal of radioactive waste.
Professor Styles has also been invited to join a Royal Society Panel which is replying to the NDA consultation on disposal of Plutonium waste.
Earlier this month Professor Styles was one of three UK delegates to the International Union of Geological Sciences in Norway.