The "Back-End Week" convened members to discuss decommissioning and waste management activities.
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11 April 2024
The NEA Joint Project on Waste Integration for Small and Advanced Reactor Designs (WISARD) will start in 2025.
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24 April 2024
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11 October 2024
Mercure Budapest Castle Hill, Budapest, Hungary
Over the past two decades, the safety case has become a powerful and essential tool to support decision making for every stage of a geological disposal programme. Now, an increasing number of nationa...
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4 March 2024
Interest in expanding nuclear power to cope with rising demand for energy and potential climate change places increased attention on the nuclear fuel cycle and whether significant moves are being tak...
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16 January 2012
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7 March 2024
There is a consensus in the international community that geological repositories provide the necessary long-term safety and security to isolate long-lived radioactive waste. However, despite the tech...
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4 September 2023
The Ad hoc Expert Group on Trends in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle (TNFC) was set up to investigate trends in the latest progress and the future trajectories in the nuclear fuel cycle.
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29 June 2020
NEA hosted two workshops in Romania on 25-29 July 2022.
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4 August 2022
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5 February 2024
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8 December 2023
Camden, New Jersey, United States
The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) created the Ad-hoc Group on the Extended Storage and Transportation (AhGEST) in 2021. Following the work on these two topics, AhGEST presented it...
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22 January 2024
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17 November 2023
Community and industry come together to workshop radioactive waste management strategies
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5 December 2022
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7 May 2002
Decommissioning of both commercial and R&D nuclear facilities is expected to increase significantly in the coming years, and the largest of such industrial decommissioning projects could command cons...
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18 August 2016
The transition from an operating nuclear facility to the decommissioning phase is critical in the life cycle of every facility. A number of organisational and technical modifications are needed in or...
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25 May 2018
NEA delegation led by Director-General Magwood was in Romania for a series of meetings and to co-host a workshop.
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29 June 2023
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15 June 2023
JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
Momentum in regards to disposal solutions for radioactive waste has rapidly picked up over the last five years. Several countries have entered the licensing phase of establishing a deep geological re...
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13 June 2023
The ICGR brings together high-level decision-makers from regulatory and local government bodies, waste management organisations and public stakeholder communities to review current perspectives of ge...
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26 February 2021
The Horonobe International Joint Project (HIP) is a collaborative project between the NEA and Japan Atomic Energy Agency established in February 2023.
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25 April 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2013)1
This document defines and discusses the purpose and general contents of post-closure safety cases for geological repositories for long-lived radioactive waste. Its aim is to provide a useful point of...
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13 February 2013
The goal of EGCUL is to share state-of-the-art knowledge and experience in characterising a large amount of unknown waste derived from nuclear accidents and past nuclear activities.
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12 July 2022
The brochure provides background information about the NEA.
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10 September 2018
NEA/RWM/R(2022)1
Robotics and remote systems (RRS) are essential technologies for work in the radiation environments typically encountered in the nuclear back-end, such as in radioactive waste management and decommis...
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13 January 2023
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10 November 2022
Lord Elgin Hotel - Ottawa, Canada
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21 November 2022
At the end of its first phase of RK&M work, the OECD/NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) observed that the context has changed considerably since the 1980s, when RK&M preservation was t...
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1 March 2014
The Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) gathered participants in in Helsinki, Finland, on 4-8 April.
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27 April 2022
EXPERT ROUNDTABLE: Progress in HLW management and the sustainability of nuclear energy, 12 November 2020
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13 November 2020
放射性廃棄物は、医療・産業・研究・発電など幅広い活動から発生する。このような廃棄物はすべて、人の健康と環境の保護を最優先して安全に管理しなくてはならない。何十年にも及ぶ研究活動を経て、国際科学界は今では、高レベル放射性廃棄物を深地層最終処分場(DGR)に定置することが安全かつ効果的であると確信するに至っている。
各国政府は、それぞれが最良であると信じるエネルギー・環境政策を実施する絶対的な権利と責...
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14 April 2022
Radioactive waste results from many different activities in health care, industry, research, and power production. All such waste must be managed safely, with the protection of human health and the e...
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1 January 2020
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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15 July 2021
The diversity in classification schemes across countries has restricted the possibility of comparing waste inventories and led to difficulties in interpreting waste management practices, both nationa...
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26 November 2020
NEA Expert Group on the Application of Robotics and Remote Systems in the Nuclear Back-end (EGRRS) discusses how to improve the regulatory framework for robotic and remote systems applications.
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14 December 2021
The NEA hosted an online expert roundtable discussion on 24 June 2021 on safety case projects of three different types of disposal facilities in member countries.
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1 July 2021
On the occasion of this anniversary, the NEA has published a commemorative brochure that reflects on 20 years of IGSC work and traces the evolution of the concept of the safety case overall.
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29 January 2021
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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1 October 2020
The Crystalline Club (CRC) is composed of technical experts with experience in evaluating or reviewing the understanding of crystalline rock as host rocks for deep geologic disposal projects. CRC mem...
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16 November 2021
Brochure sur la protection radiologique et stockage géologique qui concerne les principes et recommandations de la Commission international de protection radiologique (CIPR).
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24 September 2020
Summary record of the topical session on “Considerations for Updating a Safety Case” held during the 21st meeting of the IGSC held in Paris, France on 8-10 October 2019.
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15 March 2021
NEA/RWM(2009)10
Summary Record of the 2nd Meeting of the Reversibility and Retrievability Project, 2009, NEA Headquarters, 3-5 June 2009
This summary record presents the main conclusions as well as a summary record ...
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16 April 2010
NEA/RWM(2007)7
Proposal to the RWMC
National programmes would benefit from a shared and broad-based understanding at the international level of the reversibility and retrievability concepts and of the related oppor...
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16 April 2010
The feasibility and costs of spent nuclear fuel management and the consequent disposal of ultimate waste continue to be the subject of public debate in many countries, with particular concern often e...
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23 October 2013
Information on the waste management and decommissioning programmes of individual member countries of the NEA are presented in country profiles and country reports. Both documents aim to provide topic...
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1 January 2013
NEA/RWM/CPD(2006)2
This report describes generic results obtained by the CPD on available adequate methods of measurement. Although part of the information exchanged within CPD is confidential in nature and is restrict...
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16 October 2006
NEA/RWM/CPD(2010)3
This document was prepared by the Task Group on Decontamination and Dismantling (D&D) of Concrete Structures. It provides a comprehensive review of proven technologies and methods fro decontaminating...
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22 July 2010
NEA/RWM/CPD(2012)1/PROV
This document is the provisional agenda of the 31st meeting of the CPD Management Board. It is the 4th meeting under the 2009 Agreement. The meeting was held at the NEA Offices in Issy-les-Moulineaux...
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29 October 2012
Decommissioning of nuclear facilities and related remedial actions are currently being undertaken around the world to enable sites or parts of sites to be reused for other purposes. Remediation has g...
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18 August 2014
The aim of the workshop was to initiate a broad international dialogue between interested parties to identify the different factors influencing the development and of RRS in projects on radioactive w...
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16 February 2021
IGSC activities in the field of Assessment Strategy and Tool evaluate effective assessment tools and strategies in developing and integrating a safety case.
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16 February 2021
NEA/RWM/R(2015)7
In 2012, the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) noted the needs of developing operational best practices and guidelines for geological repositories. Under the RWMC’s mandate, the Integrati...
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7 September 2015
NEA/RWM/R(2015)6
Geological disposal of high-level waste or spent nuclear fuel is a strategic area in the work program of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Radioactive Waste Management Committee (NEA RWMC). In 2012, the...
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3 August 2015