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Concerted action on the retrievability of long-lived radioactive waste in deep underground repositories. Final report (2000)

AuthorJ.B.Grupa
Date2000
Classification 6.01.5.51/81 (WASTE - STORAGE ON LAND (f.i. SALT / CLAY) (INCL. SYNROC))
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FOREWORD

This report presents the results of a Concerted Action on "the retrievability of
long-lived radioactive waste in deep underground repositories". This Concerted
Action was carried out during the period 1998-1999 within the specific programme
'Nuclear Fission Safety 1994- 1998' of the EURATOM Framework Programme
and involved experts from nine different European countries.

The objective of the Concerted Action was to establish a clear interpretation and
working definition of the concept of retrievability, to come to a more common
understanding of the meaning of retrievability with respect to the different time-zones
of the disposal of long-lived radioactive waste and to provide a better understanding
of how and to what extent retrievability has been or could be incorporated into the
different disposal concepts.

The topic of retrievability is currently receiving a lot of attention and other
activitiesare currently going on both at national level (e.g. at the Swedish National
Council for Nuclear Waste, KASAM, and at the U.S Board on Radioactive Waste
Management of the National Research Council) and at an ad-hoc group under aegis
of the OECD NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC).

This report is however the first of its kind within this context published in the
Nuclear Science and Technology series of the European Commission, as a EUR report.

It is emphasised that the views expressed in this report do not necessarily represent
the views of the governments of the countries involved or of the organisations
responsible for radioactive waste management.

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