Radioactive waste repositories are designed to be intrinsically safe in that they are not dependent on the presence or intervention of humans. In response to this challenge, the Nuclear Energy Agency...

Radioactive waste repositories are designed to be intrinsically safe in that they are not dependent on the presence or intervention of humans. In response to this challenge, the Nuclear Energy Agency...

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...

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...

Proceedings of the RWMC Regulators Forum Workshop held in Helsinki, Finland on 8-9 September 2015.

The present Phase-II Vision Document is the revised version following refining of work priorities of the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations initiative subsequent ...

This document reports on the progress of the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations initiative over the period March 2013-March 2014.

This document is the summary record of the seventh meeting of the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations initiative, held in Paris, France on 27-28 May 2014.

This document is the summary record of the meeting of the task group “Set of Essential Records” within the RWMC’s initiative “Preservation of Record, Knowledge and Memory Across Generations” (RK&M), ...

This document is a summary record of the first meeting of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) initiative.

This document presents the proposed terms of reference for the 2015 RWMC-RF Workshop, Challenges to the Regulator in Construction, Licensing and Operation of Waste Repositories. Presented at the 17th...

Outlines the vision for the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Project, namely to create sets of metadata that can be used by national programmes to manage their repository dat...

Sysnthesis and international perspective of the 9th Community Visit and National Workshop of the OECD NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) held in the Czech Republic on 24-26 October 2012.

This document is the provisional summary record of the fifth meeting of the Expert Group on Preservation of Recrods, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) Across Generations, held in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Franc...

The key objective of this joint RF/IGSC workshop was to identify, and exchange experience on, the current and future challenges faced by implementers and regulators when preparing for their applicati...

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...

This document describes the mandate of the IGSC Expert Group on Operational Safety (EG-OS) in 2013. The aim of the expert group is to identify, evaluate and help define international best practice in...

This document describes the provisional Programme of Work (PoW) of the Expert Group on Operational Safety in 2013 to 2014. Work activities outlined here were approved by the EG-OS at their kickoff me...