NEA/RWM/IGSC(2005)15
This document presents a list of Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) documents that have been published since its launching in 2000. It consists of two parts, the first of which lists the pu...
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20 October 2005
NEA/RWM/CLAYCLUB(2004)6
This document reports the main items discussed and decisions made at the 14th Plenary Meeting of the NEA's Integration Group for the Safety Case's (IGSC) Clay Club, held at the ONDRAF/NIRAS offices i...
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1 December 2004
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised a workshop on the “Management of Uncertainty in Safety Cases and the Role of Risk” in Stockholm, Sweden, on 2-4 February 2004. The workshop’s main objec...
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25 February 2005
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2003)12
This document is the final programme of the NEA's Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) workshop on Management of Uncertainty in Safety Cases: The Role of Risk, held in Stockholm, Sweden on 2-...
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25 June 2003
Safety assessment is an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the scientific understanding and performance assessment of safety functions as well as the hazards associated with a geological disp...
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18 September 2012
For the past several decades, the Nuclear Energy Agency Salt Club has been supporting and overseeing the characterisation of rock salt as a potential host rock for deep geological repositories. This ...
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22 May 2018
NEA/RWM/R(2013)10
This document describes the proceedings of an IGSC international workshop was convened in Braunschweig, Germany on 5-7 September 2013, with the purpose of identifying and compiling information on kno...
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3 March 2014
The NEA has made progress on two activities that seek to bolster member countries’ nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and their ability to co-ordinate response actions.
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27 May 2022
NEA News is the professional journal of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). It features articles on the latest nuclear energy issues concerning the economic and technical aspects of nuclear energy, nucl...
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19 December 2014
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18 July 2022
A central safety function of radioactive waste disposal repositories is the prevention or sufficient retardation of radionuclide migration to the biosphere. Performance assessment exercises in variou...
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4 May 2012
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 Expert Group on Operational Safety (EGOS) meeting, 7 October 2019.
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18 November 2019
Disposal of long-lived radioactive waste in engineered facilities deep underground is being widely investigated worldwide in order to protect humans and the environment both now and in the future. Th...
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19 July 2004
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2002)1
This document contains the proceedings of a topical session on the Safety Case held at the third Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) meeting in Paris, France on 25 November 2001. The topics ...
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10 January 2002
GEOTRAP is the OECD/NEA Project on Radionuclide Migration in Geologic, Heterogeneous Media carried out in the context of site evaluation and safety assessment of deep repository systems for long-live...
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14 February 2002
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2015)1/REV1
In the post-closure phase of a deep geological repository for radioactive waste, significant quantities of gases may be generated from various sources. The most important gas generating process is an...
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11 March 2015
NEA/RWM/R(2019)4
This document is the fourth of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and r...
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1 March 2022
À toutes les phases du cycle du combustible nucléaire, mais aussi lorsque l’on utilise des substances radioactives dans l’industrie, la recherche et en médecine, on produit des déchets radioactifs. L...
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24 September 2010
The analysis of the long-term safety of radioactive waste disposal systems requires the use of mathematical models and scenarios that simulate repository behavior in response to future events. This r...
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2 January 1992
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18 November 2019
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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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21 November 2023
The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) hosted an international symposium on “Safety Cases for the Deep Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Where Do We Stand?” in January 2007. The NEA has spearheaded import...
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12 April 2007
Studies are under way in Switzerland to investigate various aspects of the geological disposal of radioactive waste. This report presents the results of the international peer review organised by the...
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23 April 2004
Analysis of the long-term safety of radioactive waste repositories, using performance assessment and other tools, is required prior to implementation.The initial stage in developing a repository safe...
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25 July 2001
NEA/RWM/R(2015)3
This report provides an overview of the state of the art in scenario development related to the long-term safety of geological repositories for radioactive waste.
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15 December 2015
NEA/RWM/PEER(2012)1
At the request of the Belgian Federal government, the OECD-NEA International Review Team (IRT) is reviewing the safety case of the ONDRAF/NIRAS' surface disposal facility for low and intermediate lev...
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13 March 2012
NEA/RWM/PEER(2011)3
At the request of the Swedish government, the OECD-NEA International Review Team (IRT) is examining the application by SKB for a construction license of a spent fuel repository in Sweden. Questionnai...
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26 July 2011
NEA/RWM/R(2019)2
This document is the second of the five interrelated reports of the Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative. The series of reports discusses the key aspects of data and r...
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1 March 2022
All national radioactive waste management authorities recognise today that a robust safety case is essential in developing disposal facilities for radioactive waste. To improve the robustness of the ...
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17 August 2017
The Joint IGSC/SITEX Seminar on Regulatory Review of Safety Cases for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste, held in Paris, France on 21-22 February 2017, provided a forum for international organi...
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5 May 2021
NEA/RWM/CLAYCLUB(2004)5
This document is the summary record of the 14th Plenary Meeting of the NEA's Integration Group for the Safety Case's (IGSC) Clay Club, held at the ONDRAF/NIRAS offices in Brussels, Belgium on 20-21 O...
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1 December 2004
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2013)3/PROV
The first meeting of the Salt Club (SC-1) took place at the NEA Offices in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France on 04 December 2012. This draft summary record reviews the main items and decisions.
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10 September 2013
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2013)10
This document is the summary record of the 2nd meeting of the Salt Club held in Berlin, Germany on 16 September 2013. The Salt Club operates under the aegis of the Integration Group for the Safety Ca...
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13 March 2014
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2009)2/REV concerning balancing operational and long-term safety considerations.
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29 October 2008
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2009)7 concerning the topical session devoted to organisational issues.
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22 October 2009
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2010)8 concerning the topical session on optimisation.
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20 October 2010
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2011)2 concerning the topical session on gas migration.
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19 October 2011
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2014)5/PROV concerning the topical session on handling extreme geological events in safety cases during the post-closure phase.
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8 October 2014
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2015)9/FINAL concerning the topical session on the role of geo-scientific arguments in the siting process.
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7 October 2015
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2016)10/PROV concerning the topical session on the demonstration of repository technology.
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12 October 2016
Summary record of the topical session on “Considerations for Updating a Safety Case” held during the 21st meeting of the IGSC held in Paris, France on 8-10 October 2019.
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15 March 2021
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2006)5 concerning recent progress and new methods of handling FEPs in the safety case.
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26 October 2006
Summary record extracted from NEA/RWM/IGSC(2008)1 concerning the proposed programme of work for the IGSC.
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25 October 2007
NEA/RWM/IGSC(2008)2
This report of the NEA Working Group on Approaches and Methods for Integrating Geological Information in the Safety Case (AMIGO) summarizes the responses from 17 AMIGO participants, including both im...
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23 July 2008
A workshop entitled “The Handling of Timescales in Assessing Post-closure Safety” of deep geological repositories for radioactive waste was organised by the NEA in April 2002. This report presents th...
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10 February 2004
A workshop entitled the “Handling of timescales in assessing post-closure safety” of deep geological repositories for radioactive waste was organised in Paris on 16-18 April 2002 and hosted by the Fr...
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22 November 2002
An important activity of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) in the field of radioactive waste management is the organisation of independent, international peer reviews of national studies and proje...
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8 October 2012
NEA/RWM/PEER(2012)3
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has an acknowledged role in organising independent, international peer reviews of national programmes and studies in the field of radioactive waste management. The NEA...
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14 September 2012
Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) brochure on the long-term safety case for geological disposal of radioactive waste.
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1 February 2014
