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8 April 2020
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8 April 2020
The second Roundtable on Final Disposal of High‑level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel,
7 February 2020
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7 February 2020
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14 January 2020
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 Expert Group on Operational Safety (EGOS) meeting, 7 October 2019.
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18 November 2019
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18 November 2019
The first Roundtable for International Co‑operation in Final Disposal of High‑level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel, 14 October 2019.
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14 October 2019
NEA/RWM/R(2019)1
Version 3.0 of the International Features, Events and Processes (IFEP) List for the Deep Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste. This is a comprehensive and structured list of generic FEPs, relevan...
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18 February 2019
For the past several decades, the Nuclear Energy Agency Salt Club has been supporting and overseeing the characterisation of rock salt as a potential host rock for deep geological repositories. This ...
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22 May 2018
All national radioactive waste management authorities recognise today that a robust safety case is essential in developing disposal facilities for radioactive waste. To improve the robustness of the ...
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17 August 2017
Communication has a specific role to play in the development of deep geological repositories. Building trust with the stakeholders involved in this process, particularly within the local community, i...
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20 February 2017
The topical session dealt with experiences from assessments of criticality safety and the application of safeguards in the different member countries of the IGSC.
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1 January 2017
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2016)10/PROV concerning the topical session on the demonstration of repository technology.
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12 October 2016
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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19 July 2016
The Nuclear Energy Agency carried out an independent peer review of Japan’s siting process and criteria for the geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste in May 2016. The review concluded t...
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20 January 2016
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
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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29 July 2015
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2015)1/REV1
In the post-closure phase of a deep geological repository for radioactive waste, significant quantities of gases may be generated from various sources. The most important gas generating process is an...
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11 March 2015
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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19 December 2014
NEA/RWM/R(2014)4
Nations with nuclear power programmes are, or intend to, become engaged in planning to dispose of their higher-level and/or longer-lived radioactive waste in deep geologic repositories. If they remai...
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21 March 2014
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2013)10
This document is the summary record of the 2nd meeting of the Salt Club held in Berlin, Germany on 16 September 2013. The Salt Club operates under the aegis of the Integration Group for the Safety Ca...
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13 March 2014
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2014)2/PROV1
This document describes the mission and objectives of the Salt Club for a proposed extended mandate (May 2014-December 2015) under the aegis of the IGSC.
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13 March 2014
NEA/RWM/RF(2014)2
This document presents the most complete analysis of the use of the words control, oversight, etc. as used in NEA, IAEA and ICRP literature connected to radioactive waste disposal. It reveals the man...
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11 March 2014
NEA/RWM/R(2013)10
This document describes the proceedings of an IGSC international workshop was convened in Braunschweig, Germany on 5-7 September 2013, with the purpose of identifying and compiling information on kno...
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3 March 2014
À l’heure où s’achève la première phase du travail de DCM, le Comité de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC) de l’OCDE/AEN constate que le contexte a beaucoup changé depuis les années 80, quand ...
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1 March 2014
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
NEA/RWM/RKM(2014)3/PROV
A Collective Statement of the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee which describes the guiding principles of the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations initiati...
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24 February 2014
NEA/RWM(2014)1
Way forward proposal for Phase II of the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations initiative.
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12 February 2014
NEA/RWM/R(2013)5
This study was originally commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy between 2008 and 2010. The intention was to investigate the state of the art on marking with a view to learning lessons fo...
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25 October 2013
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
Sweden is at the forefront among countries developing plans for a deep geological repository of highly radioactive waste. There is no such repository in operation yet worldwide, but Sweden, Finland a...
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5 July 2012
NEA/RWM/RF(2012)2
A key challenge for some national radioactive waste management programmes and an important learning opportunity for many others will be the licensing of the construction and operation of the first de...
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3 July 2012
NEA/RWM/R(2011)4
This is the final full report of the 4-year international project on Reversibility and Retrievability (R&R) launched in 2007 by the OECD/NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC). Major miles...
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6 December 2011
NEA/RWM(2011)16
Disposal in engineered facilities built in stable, deep geological formations is the reference solution for permanently isolating long-lived radioactive waste from the human biosphere. This managemen...
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28 November 2011
NEA/RWM(2011)4/PROV
The Regulators' Forum of the RWMC and the IGSC have both identified the need to explore the challenges and good practice in view of preparing for the construction license of a deep geological reposit...
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1 March 2011
NEA/RWM(2010)10
This draft report deals with the concepts of reversibility and retrievability for the deep disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel. It documents the results of an initiative that was ...
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24 September 2010
Disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in engineered facilities, or repositories, located deep underground in suitable geological formations is being developed worldwide as t...
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1 June 2010
NEA/RWM(2010)2
The RWMC Bureau suggests that a text of 10-15 pages be prepared as input to the International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-2011) conference and finalised thereafter. The text would foc...
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2 March 2010
A “safety case” is the synthesis of evidence, analyses and arguments that quantify and substantiate a claim that a geological repository for radioactive waste will be safe after closure and beyond th...
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5 May 2009
Un « dossier de sûreté » est la synthèse des preuves, analyses et arguments qui permettent de quantifier et de justifier que le dépôt de déchets radioactifs en formation géologique restera sûr après ...
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5 May 2009
Disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in engineered facilities, or repositories, located deep underground in suitable geological formations is being developed worldwide as t...
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24 March 2009
Le Comité de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC) de l’AEN a mis en avant les fondements environnementaux et éthiques relatifs au stockage géologique et s’est prononcé sur sa faisabilité techniq...
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1 September 2008
The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) has underscored the environmental and ethical basis for geological disposal as well as its technical feasibility in a number of previous collecti...
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1 September 2008
Regulating the long-term safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste poses special challenges due to the very long timescales involved. This report has been prepared to help foster a common un...
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30 October 2007
The long-term safety of deep disposal of radioactive waste will be strongly dependent on the performance of the geological setting. The geology fulfils important safety functions including isolating ...
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22 June 2007
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) hosted an international symposium on “Safety Cases for the Deep Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Where Do We Stand?” in January 2007. The NEA has spearheaded import...
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12 April 2007
The presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that radioactive waste placed in deep geological repositories will be adequately isolated and contained to ...
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12 April 2007
In the deep disposal of radioactive waste, the presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that the waste will be isolated and contained to protect human h...
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16 February 2007