{"id":93477,"date":"2018-07-02T16:48:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6ccdf289ec0a7225e5cb25f589f1c815"},"modified":"2018-07-02T16:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:48:33","slug":"press-release-beis-secretary-of-state-appoints-new-chair-to-the-committee-for-radioactive-waste-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93477","title":{"rendered":"Press release: BEIS Secretary of State appoints new chair to the Committee for Radioactive Waste Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Sir Nigel has been appointed from 2 July 2018 for a term of 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment has been approved by the devolved administrations.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers and Secretary of State expressed their thanks to the previous Chair, Laurence Williams, and interim chair, Campbell Gemmell for their services.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sir-nigel-thrift\">Sir Nigel Thrift<\/h2>\n<p>Until last year, Sir Nigel was the Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars. He is one of the world\u2019s leading human geographers and previously served as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick and as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"information-on-corwm\">Information on <abbr title=\"Committee on Radioactive Waste Management\">CoRWM<\/abbr><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p><abbr title=\"Committee on Radioactive Waste Management\">CoRWM<\/abbr> provides independent scrutiny and advice to UK government and devolved administration ministers on the long-term management of radioactive waste, including storage and disposal. The committee\u2019s primary task is to provide independent scrutiny on the UK government\u2019s and Radioactive Waste Management Ltd\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Radioactive Waste Management Ltd\">RWM<\/abbr>\u2019s) high profile programme to deliver geological disposal, together with interim storage, for higher activity wastes.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Committee on Radioactive Waste Management\">CoRWM<\/abbr> is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by <abbr title=\"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy\">BEIS<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Clark appoints Sir Nigel Thrift as the new Chair to the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM).<\/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\/93477"}],"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=93477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}