Allerdale and Copeland borough councils and Cumbria County Council are due to vote on 30 January on whether to proceed to "Stage 4" of the process that could see the repository built.
The West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership says it remains confident "an acceptable process" can be put in place to mitigate any negative impacts of a proposed underground repository.
The Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) process that cleans up the data and ensures data integrity, the data warehouse that acts as a scalable and reliable repository for data derived from many sources, and some form of search acceleration for large data volumes are all still needed, and an enlightened IT group is needed to install and maintain them.