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The Long Term Storage of Radioactive Waste: Safety and Responsibility (2003)

Auteur	IAEA
Datum	2003
Classificatie	6.01.5.51/90 (AFVAL - OPSLAG OP LAND (oa ZOUT/KLEI))
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FOREWORD

Storage is a necessary step in the overall management of radioactive waste. In recent
years, mainly because of the unavailability of permanent disposal facilities, stores
originally intended as temporary facilities have had their lifetimes extended and
serious consideration has been given, in some countries, to the use of storage as
a long term management option.
Attention was drawn to these developments at the International Conference on the
Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, held in Córdoba, Spain, in March 2000.
A conclusion of the conference was that perpetual storage of radioactive waste is not
a sustainable practice and offers no solution for the future. Subsequently, an action
programme based on the findings of the Córdoba conference was approved by the
General Conference of the IAEA in September 2001. One of these actions was to
"assess the safety implications of the extended storage of radioactive waste and
of any future reconditioning that may be necessary". The IAEA was requested to
investigate the role of extended storage in a sustainable programme of radioactive
waste management, and especially the implications for safety.
The present report has been produced in partial fulfilment of the request to the IAEA.
The purpose of the report is to reflect the currently prevailing views among experts
in the field. It is intended for use as a central and authoritative reference point for
national discussions and policy papers. It is therefore potentially useful to national
committees and bodies concerned with the management of radioactive waste. It may
also be of value to concerned members of the public since it is written in language
that should be comprehensible to the informed layperson. It was produced as a result
of several meetings of experts in the first part of 2002.

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