I have attended the R&Dialogue event in Brussels in 18th November 2015.

http://rndialogue.tumblr.com/post/134266512710/rdialogue-energy-dialogue-event-18-november-2015

The main concern regarding the HLW was the new definition of "safe disposal" as for 100000 years (hundred thousand years).

Germany is passing a law about the government commission responsible for a new HLW repository formed by 2 priests 8 scientists and 90 politicians (45 for the lands and 45 for the federal government). The main problem is that the land owner may revert  the government decision.

The event took place in the eve of terrorists threats in Brussels so the event was incomplete in my opinion.

My impression was that the attendants had not a good background in nuclear sciences and acted very much emotionally. The event  was organised by DG climate not DG ernergy, so there was no widespread knowledge of the SNE-TP platform and EUs goals in the "nuclear fission" (http://www.snetp.eu).

Here I see a good opportunity for enlarged E&T activities in nuclear sciences, preceding the decision making process. 

In addition to Yucca Mountain research, attempts to site LLRW facilities under the 1980/85 LLRW Policy Act in the U.S. may have generated some research along these lines.  The failures of which I am aware were in CA and NY in the 1990s and Texas in the early 2000's.  Texas was then successful in its second attempt (licensed in 2010, I think).   

Dear Florian,

unfortunately I have only now seen your question. As far as I know, there in Romania still exist no repository and Romania also relies on a national solution and summarizes long-term safekeeping of HAW on as a national task? If this is so, and one has determined one location, then it is also a national responsibility, the "host municipality" to compensate the fulfillment of this national burden reasonable. This should be previously laid down by law, so there is a claim and no mercy. In Germany, this discussion is also running. I have you delivered my opinion, the opinion which I spread here also.

Best regards

Michael Lersow