Len Watts has 15 years of experience in project management and environmental assessments within BNFL, with a track record of high quality and timely delivery. This has included the project management of BNFL Research & Technology's production of the 2002 Post-Closure Safety Case for the near-surface disposal facility at Drigg. Currently, Len is managing the technical programmes of work on the determination of site end point management and on waste inventory characterisation & behaviour within the NDA's Technical Research Portfolio. Len is also an invited member of International Atomic Energy Agency's Coordinating Group for their programme on Application of Safety Assessment Methodologies (ASAM) to near-surface disposal facilities. Len also participates on the Nuclear Energy Agency's (NEA) Integration Group for Safety Cases, a group that provides an oversight role and steering for the NEA's technical programmes on - for example - safety case development, sorption, thermodynamic databases and engineered barriers.
Prior to joining BNFL, Len obtained a 1st class degree in Mathematics & Geography at Loughborough University and a PhD in finite element modelling at Cambridge University, followed by 2 years modelling hydrological systems at the UK's Institute of Hydrology.
