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.

This is the final draft of a brochure to be published in December 2011 by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) (in English and in French). This interim file is...

This is the final full report of the 4-year international project on Reversibility and Retrievability (R&R) launched in 2007 by the OECD/NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC). Major miles...

This document contains a summary of the actions taken at the Radioactive Waste Management Committee's (RWMC) Reversibility and Retrievability Project Meeting, held in Paris, France on 21-23 June 2010...

The second phase of the RWMC Reversibility and Retrievability project was a data gathering phase, through use of a questionnaire to elicit information on the current status of disposal programmes in ...

This draft report deals with the concepts of reversibility and retrievability for the deep disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel. It documents the results of an initiative that was ...

At its March 2007 meeting, the RWMC agreed to start an initiative on reversibility and retrievability (R&R), with a particular focus on policy and regulatory issues. The R&R initiative is being carri...

The intention of this document is to provide an exploration of the relevant issues based on the current understanding and views of experts from the waste management community in NEA Member countries....

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) Annotated Glossary is a review of concepts central to societal decision making about radioactive waste management. It record...

This 7th Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) workshop focused on the territorial implementation of France’s high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste management programme. Sessions address...

Summary record of the Reversibility and Retrievability Project meeting in Washington D.C., United States, 2-4 December 2009

At its third meeting, held in Karlsruhe, Germany on 17-19 June 2002, the Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) held a Topical Session on Buildings & Sites Release and Reuse. Present...

Deep geological repositories of radioactive waste are designed and licensed based on a model of long-term safety which does not require the active presence of man. During the period of stepwise devel...

The present leaflet summarises the current understanding developed in the NEA international project on reversibility and retrievability. The leaflet includes a generic Retrievability Scale that is ad...

The present leaflet summarises the current understanding developed in the NEA international project on reversibility and retrievability. The leafelt includes a generic Retrievability Scale that is ad...

Ce dépliant résume la compréhension actuelle développée dans le cadre du projet international de l’AEN en matière de réversibilité et récupérabilité. Il présente également une Echelle de Récupérabili...

各国において，処分計画における可逆性および回収可能性の意義と役割を明確にすること, および長期安全性を最優先にすることの重要性は認識されている。このリーフレットは，NEA のプロジェクトで得られ た, 可逆性および回収可能性に関する現時点での認識を取りまとめたもので, 多くの国の処分計画に適応可能な一般的な回収可能性の考え方を示す尺度(Retrievability Scale) が含まれている。...

The most widely adopted solution for the definitive management of high-level radioactive waste involves its emplacement in deep geological repositories whose safety should not depend on the active pr...

La solution la plus communément adoptée en matière de gestion définitive des déchets radioactifs de haute activité consiste à placer ces déchets dans des centres de stockage en couche géologique prof...