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. After creation and use, many...

Within the framework of the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy's Working Group 3, Rethinking the relationship between nuclear energy and society, the NEA, in co-ope...

Argillaceous (i.e. clay-rich) media are being considered in many Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) member countries as potential host rocks for the long-term, safe, near-surface or at-depth disposal of rad...

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 ...

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...

L'évaluation de la sûreté à long terme des centres de stockage des déchets radioactifs nécessite notamment d’étudier les événements perturbateurs d’origine naturelle ou humaine et d’en évaluer les im...

DOI: 10.1787/9789264082182-en-fr

Integrated performance assessments (IPAs) of radioactive waste repositories deep underground are made at different stages of repository development in order, for exam...

DOI: 10.1787/g2gh1c9a-en

ISBN-13: 9789264160996

GEOTRAP is the OECD/NEA Project on Radionuclide Migration in Geologic, Heterogeneous Media carried out in the context of site characterisation and eval...