Radioactive waste management

Overview

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 and working methods

Selected publicly available documents

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

Expert Group on Integrated Performance Assessment (IPAG)

Expert Group on Radionuclide Migration in Geologic Media (GEOTRAP)

Joint research projects related to radioactive waste management

The International Co-operative Programme on Decommissioning (CPD)

Sorption Project