Radioactive waste management
The goal of the NEA in this area is to assist member countries in the management of radioactive waste and materials, focusing on the development of strategies for the safe, sustainable and broadly acceptable management of all types of radioactive waste, in particular long-lived waste and spent fuel.
Objectives
- To bring about a shared and broad-based understanding on the management of radioactive waste and materials, particularly in the long-lived waste area;
- To facilitate the elaboration of waste management strategies at the national and international levels;
- To help elaborate common regulatory approaches in the management of radioactive waste;
- To enable the management of radioactive waste and materials to benefit from progress of scientific
and technical knowledge.
Programme of work
Programme of work
Working methods
Committees and ad hoc working groups
Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC)
Radioactive waste management documents
Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC)
Integration Group for the Safety Case of Radioactive Waste Repositories (IGSC)
IGSC Working Group on the Characterisation, the Understanding and the Performance of Argillaceous Rocks as Repository Host Formations (Clay Club)
Regulators' Forum (RWMC RF)
Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD)
WPDD Decommissioning Cost Estimation Group (DCEG)
Expert groups which have completed their mandates
Joint research projects related to radioactive waste management
The International Co-operative Programme on Decommissioning (CPD)
Sorption Project
Related links
RWMC members-only area (requires password)
CPD members-only area (requires password)
RWMC Regulators' Forum members-only area (requires password)
WPDD members-only area (requires password)
E-mail contact: Hans Riotte (hans.riotte@oecd.org)
Last updated: 17 June 2008
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