Regulatory authorities develop regulations and the associated practical guidance. Considering the long-term safety of repository, regulators develop operational criteria and optimization for the repo...

The Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA), at its June 2006 meeting, agreed to form a Senior-level Expert Group to produce a report called "The Regulatory Goal of Assuring Nuclear Safety"...

This document presents an overview of findings, positions, boundary conditions and issues based on the results of the R&R project of 2007-2011 and of the Reims conference held in December 2010.

All RF colleagues are asked to provide written replies to questions listed in this document. Responses will be compiled and analysed, and the analysis will be distributed a few days prior to RWMC-43....

This document reports the main findings from the RWMC Regulators’ Forum (RF) Workshop, as discussed and approved at the RF meeting in March 2009. The workshop was held in Tokyo, Japan on 20-22 Januar...

The last decade has seen significant progress in several countries on the siting of repositories for deep disposal of long-lived radioactive waste. In parallel with this, regulatory authorities have ...

This document reviews the regulatory developments in the field of geologic disposal since the Cordoba Workshop of 1997. It supports the Tokyo workshop of the RWMC Regulators' Forum (20-22 January 200...

This brochure presents an easily accessible synopsis of the regulatory control of radioactive waste management by reviewing 15 national cases. It covers the management of radioactive waste from all t...

The NEA's Radioactive Waste Management Committee's (RWMC) Regulators’ Forum's (RWMC-RF) first major undertaking was to compile information about the regulatory control of radioactive waste management...

Issues with the removal of regulatory controls are very important on the agenda of the regulatory authorities dealing with radioactve waste managemnt (RWM). These issues arise prominently in decommis...