{"id":68149,"date":"2016-03-02T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=407a1d8eb0199e6a3fe3ab0557424491"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:58:11","slug":"news-story-the-committee-on-radioactive-waste-management-is-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68149","title":{"rendered":"News story: The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management is recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Committee provides independent advice, based on informed scrutiny of the available evidence, to UK Government and Devolved Administration Ministers on the long-term management of radioactive waste, including storage and disposal. Its primary objectives are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>to provide independent evidence-based advice to sponsor Ministers on the Government\u2019s, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Nuclear Decommissioning Authority\">NDA<\/abbr>) and Radioactive Waste Management Ltd\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Radioactive Waste Management Limited\">RWM<\/abbr>) programme to deliver geological disposal (except for Scotland), together with robust interim storage, for higher activity radioactive waste;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>to provide independent, evidence-based advice on other radioactive waste management issues as requested by sponsor Ministers, including advice requested by Scottish Government in relation to its policy for higher activity radioactive waste.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr title=\"Committee on Radioactive Waste Management\">CoRWM<\/abbr> plays an essential and high profile role in demonstrating the Government\u2019s committment to transparency and use of evidence in guiding radioactive waste policy. <\/p>\n<p>This is vital to the UK Government\u2019s delivery of a highly-engineered geological disposal facility (<abbr title=\"Geological Disposal Facility\">GDF<\/abbr>), building public understanding and trust, and the ongoing development and implementation of safe, secure, environmentally sound and publicly acceptable radioactive waste management programmes across the UK.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"more-information\">More information<\/h2>\n<p>For more information on what the Committee does, please see the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/committee-on-radioactive-waste-management\/about\/terms-of-reference\">Terms of Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications?departments%5B%5D=committee-on-radioactive-waste-management\">Previous publications<\/a>, including minutes, position papers, comments and reports<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The existing membership of the Committee can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/committee-on-radioactive-waste-management\"><abbr title=\"Committee on Radioactive Waste Management\">CoRWM<\/abbr> homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-apply\">How to apply<\/h2>\n<p>If you are interested in applying for a role as a member of <abbr title=\"Committee on Radioactive Waste Management\">CoRWM<\/abbr>, please <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hays.co.uk\/jobs\/corwm\/index.htm\">see the advert<\/a> for all of the relevant information. The closing date for receipt of applications is 18 March 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) is recruiting for eleven members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}