The Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety brings together representatives of regulatory bodies, their technical support organisations and operators of nuclear fuel cycle facilities, which comprise a number of interrelated activities, including: uranium mining and milling; uranium refining and conversion to uranium hexafluoride; uranium enrichment; fuel fabrication and storage; spent fuel storage; spent fuel reprocessing; decommissioning of nuclear facilities; radioactive waste management and disposal options (including for spent fuel) and the research and demonstration facilities that support these activities.
Reactor operation is conventionally not included in the so-called nuclear fuel cycle. Similarly, the long-term management of radioactive waste is a very broad field, widely covered in several other NEA committees and is therefore not addressed. However, the safety aspects associated with processing and storing waste in the short-term on the site of fuel cycle facilities are treated by the group.
International Workshop on Developments in Safety Assessment Approaches and Safety Management Practices of Fuel Cycle Facilities
7-9 October 2019, Paris, France
International Workshop on Chemical Hazards in Fuel Cycle Facilities Nuclear Processing
17-19 April 2018
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Workshop on Developments in Fuel Cycle Facilities (FCFs) after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) Accident
15-18 November 2016
Aomori City, Japan
OECD/NEA International Workshop on Operational and Regulatory Aspects of Criticality Safety
19-21 May 2015
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
The Safety of Long-Term Interim Storage Facilities in NEA Member Countries
NEA/CSNI/R(2017)4
Safety of Long-term Interim Storage Facilities – Workshop Proceedings, Munich, Germany, 21-23 May 2013
NEA/CSNI/R(2013)10
CSNI Technical Opinion Paper No. 15 – Ageing management of Fuel Cycle Facilities
NEA No. 6990, NEA/CSNI/R(2012)7, ISBN 978-92-64-99181-1
Proceedings of the Workshop on Safety Assessment of Fuel Cycle Facilities,
NEA/CSNI/R(2012)4
Proceedings of the Workshop on Ageing Management of Fuel Cycle Facilities
NEA/CSNI/R(2010)4
The Safety of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
NEA No. 3588, ISBN 92-64-01421-7
Workshop on Fuel Cycle Safety – Past, Present and Future
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, 16-18 October 2007
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