Horonobe Underground Research Center

News Archive

13 October 2023:
An on-site Task B meeting was held at the Horonobe URL between the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI, Korea) and JAEA.
6 September 2023:
An on-site Task A meeting was held at the Horonobe URL between the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI, Japan), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO, Japan) and JAEA.
18 July 2023:
The State Enterprise Radioactive Waste (SERAW) signed the Agreement.
28 June 2023:
The first joint task meeting was held online.
28 April 2023:
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) signed the Agreement.
11-12 April 2023:
The first Management Board meeting* was held in Paris, France.
*The meeting information is available on the NEA website: https://oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_80835/deep-geological-repository-development-to
3 April 2023:
The Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) and the Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center (RWMC) signed the Agreement.
28 March 2023:
The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) signed the Agreement.
15 March 2023:
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) signed the Agreement.
10 February 2023:
The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) signed the Agreement.
8 February 2023:
The Regia Autonomă Tehnologii pentru Energia Nuclear (RATEN) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) signed the Agreement.
The Agreement on the "OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Horonobe International Project (HIP)" commenced.
7 February 2023:
The British Geological Survey (BGS) signed the Agreement.