Proceedings of the sixth annual NEA-seabed working group meeting, Paris, France

Major objectives of this year's meeting are: to exchange data and information collected during 1980; to outline each participant's seabed disposal program status and specific plans for next year; to coordinate this year's cooperative work, including research vessel cruises; to review the System Analysis Task Group (SATG) report and to provide further information for the SATG models; and to outline the major tasks and timing for the Seabed Working Group programs for the next five years. The end product of the workshop is to have a basis for: A summary report to the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee on the SWG activities; Identification of specific areas of continued Task Group coordination; An update of specific Task Group members; and Identification of specific areas of continued multinational participation. Separate abstracts have been prepared for the individual task groups' reports for inclusion in the Energy Data Base. National summary reports on the status of programs in the USA, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, Commission of the European Communities, Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium are included