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 ...

DOI: 10.1787/9789264082182-en-fr

Integrated performance assessments (IPAs) of radioactive waste repositories deep underground are made at different stages of repository development in order, for exam...

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1c9a-en

ISBN-13: 9789264160996

GEOTRAP is the OECD/NEA Project on Radionuclide Migration in Geologic, Heterogeneous Media carried out in the context of site characterisation and eval...

10.1787/8580e7ce-en

The disposal of long-lived radioactive waste in a deep geological repository (DGR) is a scientifically and technically credible solution that meets the need for long-term safety w...

DOI: 10.1787/9789264187511-en

Safety assessments of disposal sites for radioactive waste involve analyses of potential releases of radionuclides from the disposed waste and subsequent transport to th...

Radioactive waste is produced in all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle and from the use of radioactive materials in industrial, medical, defence and research applications. After creation and use, many...

The Expert Group on Operational Safety (EGOS) aims to identify, evaluate and help define international best practice in operating geological repositories for radioactive waste safely.

Since the publication, in 2001, of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) report describing the role of underground research laboratories (URLs) in nuclear waste disposal programmes and their value to build...

The Nuclear Energy Agency’s (NEA) Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) and its predecessor, the Performance Assessment Advisory Group (PAAG), have carried out activities related to the compil...

The topic was discussed at the workshop organised by the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC).