This presentation summarizes, compares, and contrasts the different approaches to safe, permanent disposal of high level radioactive wasteforms (fuel and/or reprocessing wastes) being considered in various countries with established radioactive waste management programs.  All have in common the concept of a geological repository, in which solidified radioactive wasteforms would be interred and sealed for the purpose of long-term (permanent) disposal, but as the geological conditions (seismicity, rock formations, groundwater compositions, etc.), nature of the wasteform, regulatory environment, and sociocultural aspects differ from country to country, so to do the details of each national program for high level radioactive waste management.  Yet, there is much common ground, for many practical reasons, and much to be learned and gained by joint international efforts in this field.