Charles McCombie
ARIUS
Charles McCombie is an independent strategic and technical adviser to various national and international waste management programs and executive director of the Association for Regional and International Underground Storage, or Arius. For 20 years, he was scientific and technical director of Nagra, the Swiss cooperative for the disposal of radioactive waste. He has chaired the International Technical Advisory Committee and the International Board of Counselors of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, was vice chairman of the U.S. National Research Council’s Board on Radioactive Waste Management, and currently chairs the Nuclear Advisory Committee of the Paul Scherrer Institut.