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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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10 September 2024
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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13 August 2024
The committee supports member countries in the development of safe and economically efficient management of all types of radioactive waste (including spent fuel) based on the latest scientific and te...
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10 July 2024
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was established by the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) in 2000 and serves as a platform for understanding and enhancing stakeholder engagem...
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8 July 2024
The "Back-End Week" convened members to discuss decommissioning and waste management activities.
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11 April 2024
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4 March 2024
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5 February 2024
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17 November 2023
COVID-19 caused a series of major changes in society, including in the way people communicate and engage with each other. The impact on communication and stakeholder engagement activities was particu...
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7 November 2023
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31 May 2023
NEA Regulators' Forum meet at the NEA in Paris to discuss regulatory issues
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26 April 2023
This brochure is published in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the NEA Regulators' Forum (RF). The document describes the history of RF, its major milestones, achievements, and vision for the...
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23 February 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
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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Lord Elgin Hotel - Ottawa, Canada
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21 November 2022
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
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26 October 2022
Venue: NH Hotel Berlin Mitte, Leipziger Str. 106-111, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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. Disposal in engineered repos...
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14 October 2022
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1 September 2022
Iwaki Business Innovation Center, Fukushima, Japan
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) are organising an international workshop on the characterisation of large quanti...
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17 August 2022
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22 July 2022
Sheraton Bucharest Hotel, Bucharest, Romania
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18 July 2022
The Regulators’ Forum (RF), the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and the Committee on Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations (CDLM) held their annual plenary meetings and a joint commi...
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4 April 2022
This brochure describes the mandate, profile, focus areas, and future challenges of the Regulators’ Forum (RF).
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10 December 2021
NEA/RWM/R(2020)2
The Expert Group on Characterisation Methodology of Unconventional and Legacy Waste (EGCUL) was established under the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) and it ...
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30 November 2021
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22 September 2021
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22 September 2021
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22 September 2021
NEA/RWM/R(2020)3
The Workshop on the Multifactor Optimisation of Predisposal Management of Radioactive Waste held on 10-14 February 2020 fostered a rich exchange among participants that highlighted the broad spectrum...
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25 June 2021
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20 May 2021
Webconference, Zoom
This workshop aimed to facilitate a broad discussion of the challenges around the competency of regulators in the areas of radioactive waste management, decommissioning and legacy management. In Janu...
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29 April 2021
NEA/RWM/FSC(2017)1
Bridging Gaps: Developing Sustainable Intergenerational Decision Making in Radioactive Waste Management
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9 April 2021
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30 March 2021
NEA/RWM/R(2020)1
The Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was created in 2000 under a mandate from the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) to facilitate the sharing of inte...
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26 February 2021
Low-level and very low-level waste represent the vast majority of radioactive waste by volume from decommissioning activity at nuclear facilities around the world, but they are only a small fraction...
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4 November 2020
The Regulators' Forum (RF) is made up of regulators who participate in the work of the RWMC and CDLM, helping to address common regulatory issues of NEA member countries.
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26 October 2020
Brochure du Comité de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC) de l’AEN sur « La gestion des déchets radioactifs et le demantèlement à l’AEN ».
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24 September 2020
NEA放射性廃棄物管理委員会(RWMC)の概要について。
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24 September 2020
This report examines the predisposal phase of radioactive waste management programmes in NEA member countries for all types of waste from high-level to intermediate- and low-level waste, and spent fu...
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8 September 2020
This document describes the synthesis requirements for Master and PhD students to apply for the opportunities to deliver presentations in the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories...
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1 September 2020
This document provides hotel details for participants in the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR).
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1 September 2020
This document describes the exhibition details of the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR).
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1 September 2020
This report presents a consensus position in the form of a Collective Opinion of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. It addresses the strategy for the...
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30 July 2020
This is the draft agenda of the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR).
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17 July 2020
This is the concept paper of the Sixth International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR).
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17 July 2020
Radioactive Waste Management flyer on the Role and Image of the Nuclear Safety Regulator.
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8 April 2020
放射性廃棄物管理における原子力安全規制の役割とその姿
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8 April 2020
Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) flyer on Radioactive Waste Management and Decommissioning at the NEA.
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8 April 2020
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
NEA/RWM(2011)13/REV5
This bibliography aims at providing an overview of the work performed in the field of preservation of records, knowledge and memory in relation to radioactive waste management, especially disposal. F...
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6 April 2018
NEA/RWM/R(2018)1
International Expert Feedback (IEF) organized by the NEA at the request of the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) to assess the sufficiency and applicability of the newly developed met...
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2 February 2018
NEA/RWM/R(2016)2
This report summarises the presentations and discussions held at the International Symposium on Preparation for Decommisssioning (PREDEC2016), held at the Lyon Convention Center, France, on 16-18 Feb...
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13 October 2017
Large quantities of materials arising from the decommissioning of nuclear facilities are non-radioactive per se. An additional significant share of materials is of very low-level or low-level radioac...
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16 August 2017
Worldwide consensus exists within the international community that geological repositories can provide the necessary long-term safety and security to isolate long-lived radioactive waste from the hum...
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10 December 2016