L’AEN a organisé en avril 2002 un atelier sur la “Gestion des échelles de temps dans le cadre de l’évaluation de sûreté en phase post-fermeture” de stockages de déchets radioactifs en formation géolo...
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1 March 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
Le processus de décision mis en place pour convevoir et mettre en oeuvre des modes de stockage à long terme des déchets radioactifs se déroule sur des décennies, comporte maintes étapes et fait inter...
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1 June 2005
L’implication des parties prenantes, notamment par le dialogue et la délibération, peut améliorer la qualité et la durabilité des décisions prises par les pouvoirs publics. Cette publication offre au...
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6 December 2005
International peer reviews as a working method is closely associated with OECD practice, where it is facilitated by the homogeneous membership and the high degree of trust shared by the member countr...
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17 November 2005
Safety assessments of disposal sites for radioactive waste involve analyses of potential releases of radionuclides from the disposed waste and subsequent transport to the human environment. An import...
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19 January 2000
The definition of the chemical and isotopic composition of the groundwater present in argillaceous formations, which are considered as potential host rocks for radioactive waste disposal, is crucial ...
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6 January 2000
The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) is a forum of senior operators, regulators, policy makers, and senior representatives of R&D institutions in the field of radioactive waste manag...
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14 February 1999
Radioactive wastes of all kinds need to be managed responsibly to ensure public safety and protection of the environment, as well as security from malicious intervention, now and in the future. The m...
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1 November 1999
Quels que soient les types de déchets radioactifs, la sécurité du public, la protection de l’environnement, mais aussi la prévention d’actes de malveillance exigent qu’on gère de facon responsable, a...
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15 October 1999
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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13 October 1999
This overview of decontamination techniques is based on the results of the previously mentioned questionnaire, which was received, reviewed and summarised for this report by the Task Group. The infor...
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3 August 1999
In the field of long-term radioactive waste management, projects to construct repositories normally last from decades to centuries. Such projects will inevitably have an effect on the host community ...
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12 January 2015
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
Radiological characterisation is a key enabling activity for the planning and implementation of nuclear facility decommissioning. Effective characterisation allows the extent, location and nature of ...
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11 February 2017
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
Le présent rapport expose une position consensuelle sous la forme d’une Opinion collective du Comité de la gestion des déchets radioactifs (RWMC) de l’Agence de l’OCDE pour l’énergie nucléaire. Il tr...
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8 January 1995
One of the initiatives of the Clay Club has been to launch a compilation and a review of the relevant literature on the basic concepts and mechanisms which control the movement of water, solute and g...
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4 January 1996
The workshop was aimed at providing a structured forum whereby implementors, regulators and scientists could interact, contribute to the advancement of the state of the art in this area, discuss the ...
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5 January 1997
GEOTRAP is the OECD/NEA Project on Radionuclide Migration in Geologic, Heterogeneous Media carried out in the context of site characterisation and evaluation and safety assessment of deep repository ...
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8 January 1998
An evaluation of the occurrence of fluid flow through faults and fractures is of primary importance for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories located in argillaceous settings.
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4 January 1998
This report is aimed at safety assessors of deep geological repositories and at technical specialists concerned with radioactive waste disposal. It is intended to improve communication among interest...
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6 January 2000
Assurer la gestion des déchets résultant de la production d’énergie nucléaire dans des conditions sûres, respectueuses de l’environnement et économiques, constitue un défi important qui conditionne l...
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1 January 2000
A consensus has been reached among technical experts that high-level radioactive waste can safely be disposed of in deep geological repositories. Safety studies are carried out to evaluate the overal...
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27 April 2001
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
On 18 May 2001, the Finnish Parliament ratified the Decision in Principle (DiP) on the final disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel at Olkiluoto, in the municipality of Eurajoki. This followed posi...
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20 September 2002
Public confidence is significantly affected by social considerations, such as public participation in decision-making processes, transparency of activities, access to information, effective and appro...
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20 October 2003
Regulators are major stakeholders in the decision-making process for radioactive waste management. The NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) has recognised the value of exchanging and com...
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27 February 2004
Les autorités réglementaires comptent parmi les principales parties prenantes dans le processus de prise de décision concernant la gestion des déchets radioactifs. Le Comité de l’AEN de la gestion de...
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4 June 2004
Radioactive waste management is an area of public interest in which stakeholder involvement has largely proven itself to be beneficial to all parties and processes concerned. With growing experience,...
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20 December 2004
Ces fiches présentent les programmes de gestion des déchets radioactifs de 20 des pays membres de l’OCDE/AEN. Elles compilent des informations sur les sources, les sortes et les quantités de déchets ...
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22 December 2005
Germany is exploring a new approach towards the final management of its radioactive waste. This international workshop, held in Germany, attracted 65 participants from 13 countries. A little more tha...
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16 May 2006
The sixth workshop of the OECD/NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) was hosted by ENRESA, the Spanish agency responsible for the management of radioactive waste and the dismantling of nuclear po...
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11 July 2007
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
A key challenge in the development of safety cases for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste is handling the long time frame over which the radioactive waste remains hazardous. The intrin...
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13 March 2009
Les programmes nationaux de gestion des déchets radioactifs se trouvent à des phases diverses dans la recherche de sites d’implantation d’installations et se fondent sur des approches techniques dist...
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25 September 2010
This report presents the conclusions of the International Review Team established by the NEA Secretariat at the request of the French government to perform a peer review of the Dossier 2001 Argile. T...
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16 November 2003
This summary highlights the main lessons to be learnt from the Third International Conference on Geological Repositories, held in Berne, Switzerland, on 15-17 October 2007 as well as final recommenda...
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20 October 2009
These proceedings include the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Geological Repositories held in Berne, Switzerland, on 15-17 October 2007 as well as a summary which highlights...
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16 October 2009
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
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...
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14 March 2012
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...
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18 January 2012
Disposal in engineered facilities built in stable, deep geological formations is the reference solution for permanently isolating long-lived radioactive waste from the human biosphere. This managemen...
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13 March 2012
Le stockage dans des installations construites dans des couches géologiques stables et profondes constitue la solution de référence pour isoler de la biosphère humaine de manière permanente les déche...
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13 March 2012
L’expérience internationale considérable accumulée au cours des 20 dernières années nous montre que les installations nucléaires peuvent être démantelées dans des conditions de sûreté, puis déclassée...
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5 May 2010
A “safety case” is the synthesis of evidence, analyses and arguments that quantify and substantiate a claim that a geological repository for radioactive waste will be safe after closure and beyond th...
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5 May 2009
Un « dossier de sûreté » est la synthèse des preuves, analyses et arguments qui permettent de quantifier et de justifier que le dépôt de déchets radioactifs en formation géologique restera sûr après ...
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5 May 2009
In November 2006, Hungary hosted the 6th National Workshop and Community Visit of the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC). Participants included institutional authorities, local residents and s...
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12 June 2009
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
The presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that radioactive waste placed in deep geological repositories will be adequately isolated and contained to ...
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12 April 2007
