ITA to work with IAEA on advance geologic repository knowledge

October 20, 2025, 9:32AMRadwaste Solutions
From left, Gerald Nieder-Westermann, IAEA waste disposal specialist; Andrea Pigorini, ITA president; Karina Lange, IAEA waste disposal specialist and scientific secretary for the IAEA’s Underground Research Facilities Network, Daniel Garbutt, ITA representative; Helen Roth, ITA executive director; Arnold Dix, ITA past president and chair of the ITA special interest group; and Stefan Joerg Mayer, IAEA team lead. (Photo: ITA)

The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA), a nongovernmental organization made up of 81 member states working to advance the safe, beneficial use of subsurface spaces, is working with the International Atomic Energy Agency to support the advancement of geologic disposal facilities for high-level radioactive waste.