The Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy convened on 20-21 April in Paris.
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26 April 2023
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24 September 2024
Solna and Östhammar, Sweden
In the Annotated Glossary of Key Terms of the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC), “transparency” is defined as an important way to achieve confidence and trust. This applies for a repository proje...
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14 August 2024
Discussions focused on future activities related to the three research tasks carried out at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory.
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12 June 2024
The Seventh International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-7) took place in Korea.
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10 June 2024
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31 May 2024
BPEX - Busan Port International Exhibition & Convention Centre, Busan, Korea
The opening session of the Seventh International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-7) in Busan, Korea. Photo: Krystal Kenney
There is consensus within the international scientific communi...
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11 June 2024
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 without reliance on a...
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24 January 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
NEA/RWM/R(2022)4
Safe disposal of radioactive waste (RW), including spent fuel, must take into consideration long timescales as implied by radioactive waste management (RWM). The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Comm...
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24 January 2024
The NEA and CAEA held the NEA-China Forum on Nuclear Decommissioning and Radioactive Waste Management in Beijing.
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23 October 2023
The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) has been organising a series of symposia every five years focusing on the development of a competent and robust safety case since 2007, in co‑operatio...
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21 November 2023
The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) provides advice to the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) on major and emerging issues to facilitate the development of waste management st...
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17 March 2022
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28 September 2023
Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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22 September 2023
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8 April 2022
Congress Hall, Paasitorni Helsinki, Finland
Spent nuclear fuel repository site, Olkiluoto, Finland. Photo: Kallerna.
Introduction
The Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR) took place in Helsinki, Finland from 4-8 A...
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3 November 2022
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
Over the past 20 years, the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) has worked extensively on the involvement of local stakeholders in decision-making processes concerning high-level radioactive wa...
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2 June 2023
NEA/RWM/R(2022)2
Following a safety-oriented, stepwise procedure for geological repository siting, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) requested in 2021 that the NEA facilitate an independent in...
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19 January 2023
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31 May 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 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
The FSC workshop participants discussed best practices for community and youth engagement around the topic of radioactive waste disposal.
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26 October 2022
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.
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4 February 2021
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
On 17-18 May, experts in radioactive waste management, local stakeholders and non-technical actors convened in Bern, Switzerland, for the IGSC and FSC workshop on the safety case.
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23 May 2022
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
The NEA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) co-organised an online International Workshop on Joint Utilisation of Underground Research Laboratories in Research. The event was h...
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28 September 2021
EXPERT ROUNDTABLE: Progress in HLW management and the sustainability of nuclear energy, 12 November 2020
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13 November 2020
The NEA will host the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR-6) on 4-8 April 2022 in Helsinki, Finland.
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24 February 2022
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
The OECD/NEA Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks as Repository Host Formations, namely the “Clay Club”, examines the various argillaceou...
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2 September 2005
Many different estimates for the cost of radioactive waste disposal in geological repositories have been published. This study, aimed at the general reader, illustrates why the published cost estimat...
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1 January 1993
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
The Crystalline Club held its first technical workshop focusing on “Research Methods and Modern Measuring Equipment Used for Site and Rock Characterisation”, with three sessions held on 11, 18 and 25...
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31 March 2021
Specific ion interaction theory (SIT) coefficients now included in the TDB e-database
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30 November 2020
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 Clay Club annual meeting, 23 September 2020.
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16 December 2020
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19 October 2020
International Roundtable on the Final Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel: Summary Report
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11 August 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
The Clay Club promotes the exchange of information, shared approaches and methods to develop and document an understanding of clay media as a host rock for a repository.
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16 November 2021
The main objective of the Salt Club is to make the current knowledge base on rock salt more readily available to member countries, particularly those countries with adequate rock salt deposits to hos...
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10 November 2021
NEA Salt Club meeting, 11-12 May 2021.
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28 May 2021
NEA Working Party on Deep Geological Repositories and Nuclear Liability (WPDGR) meeting, 25-26 June 2020.
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24 March 2021
This document provides hotel details for participants in the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR).
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1 September 2020
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