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Also confirmed was the experience of some of the WMOs that the transferability of information
between host rock types (cf. lower part of figure 1) is restricted to generic research topics. During
the development of a disposal concept the needed information is turning successively more site specific.
Indeed, the majority of the topics dealt with in FUNMIG was host rock oriented.
5. Conclusions
To ensure research oriented towards its use in the safety case an interaction of the researchers and
the performance assessment groups is essential. In FUNMIG this interaction was achieved by the
co-work between the Integration Monitoring Group representing the scientists and the representatives
of the Waste Management Organisations representing the performance assessor groups.
The assignment of FUNMIG research tasks to FEPs proved to be a powerful procedure to evaluate
the relevance of a research topic and the results achieved with respect to their use in a safety case.
This procedure may be used in the planning of projects to optimise research programmes.
The catalogue, compiled as a basis for the above mentioned evaluation procedure with concise information
on each FUNMIG task and results, will in addition facilitate the retrieval of information
acquired within FUNMIG for future safety cases.
6. Acknowledgements
The present paper is based on the outcome of a co-work between the scientists, the Integration
Monitoring Group and the representatives of the Waste Management Organisations participating in
FUNMIG. The Integrated Project FUNMIG was co-financed by the European Commission and
performed as part of the sixth Euratom Framework Programme for nuclear research and training
activities (2002-2006) under contract FI6W-CT-2004-516514.
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