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.
The objective of the Working Group on Fuel Cycle Safety (WGFCS) is to advance the understanding for both regulators and operators of relevant aspects of nuclear fuel cycle safety in member countries.
In order to accomplish this objective the working group shallInternational 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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