NEA Workshop
Safe, Efficient and Cost-effective Decommissioning
Rome, Italy
6-10 September 2004
This workshop was held in co-operation with the IAEA and EC and hosted by Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari (SOGIN) and the Italian Agency for Environment Protection and for Technical Services (APAT). The workshop covered large decommissioning projects including management, waste and stakeholder issues. The scope included power reactors, fuel facilities and facilities in a transition stage.
The objectives of the 2004 workshop were to:
- appraise overall progress since the Rome 1999 workshop;
- identify current technical, regulatory, policy, and implementing issues and present solutions to facilitate safe, economic and timely decommissioning;
- identify the impact of societal issues and outline successful approaches, in particular for stakeholder involvement; and
- identify future challenges.
Participation in the workshop included regulators, implementers and waste receiving organisations as well as other stakeholders dealing with policy issues, R&D, representatives from affected communities, mass media etc. Over 200 participants from 22 countries attended the workshop.
Proceedings from the 2004 Rome workshop (including video uptakes of the actual speeches) has been distributed in the form of a 5 CD-Rom set. A few copies are still available at the NEA Secretariat. The conclusions and final stocktaking from the workshop can be found in NEA/RWM/WPDD(2005)6.
This was the second workshop held in Rome on these issues. The first workshop was held on 19-21 May 1999, hosted by the Italian National Environmental Protection Agency (ANPA, now APAT) under the title "Joint NEA/IAEA/EC Workshop on the Regulatory Aspects of Decommissioning". The objectives of the 1999 workshop were to assist regulators, implementers and waste receiving organisations to identify those regulatory issues in need of some resolution and work towards a mutual understanding of roles and needs and the resolution of conflicts.
Related links
NEA press kit on decommissioning
Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari (SOGIN)
Italian Agency for Environment Protection and for Technical Services (APAT)
Compilation of national fact sheets
on decommissioning
This compilation is
an authoritative source of reference information on the situation in each
country. In this context, the term "nuclear facility" includes
all facilities associated with the production of nuclear power, from mining
of uranium, through fabrication of nuclear fuel, nuclear power plant operation,
fuel reprocessing and waste management, including related R&D facilities,
and research and demonstration reactors.
Strategy Selection for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities
Seminar Proceedings, Tarragona, Spain, 1-4 September 2003
Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Facilities 
It can and has been done
(Illustrated eight-page brochure)
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Last updated: 30 November 2005