International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors 2019: Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future

Efficient Implementation of Safeguards by Design for Disposed Spent Nuclear Fuel

26 Jun 2019, 16:00

30m

Poster Track 6: Disposal Track 6 Poster Session

Speaker

peter Elhamy Ishak Tawfick (Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority)

Description

Challenges for safeguarding a geological repository of spent nuclear fuel pose many high-level opportunities. First, being a relative late-comer among the various types of nuclear facilities subject to safeguards, the geological repository is an ideal candidate for applying “safeguards by design” (SBD).
Second, a repository is unlike all other nuclear facilities such that containment and surveillance (C/S) arguably should constitute the primary safeguards approach, rather than material accountancy.
Several states have already invested many years and resources toward implementing final disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a geological repository. We consider the unfolding safeguards consideration of geological repositories from the perspectives of SBD, safety, security and safeguards (3S), and C/S.
In this paper, a proposed approach for efficient implementation of Safeguards-by-Design (SBD) early into the design process of repository of spent nuclear fuel is proposed. The proposed approach describes the involved parties, their roles and responsibilities, ways of coordination and collaboration as well as main areas to be considered. International best practices in this regards are also presented and discussed

Peer reviewing

Paper

Accepted on 27 May 2019 by Amparo Gonzalez-Espartero

Paper files:

• Efficient_Implementation_of_Safeguards_by_Design_for_Disposed_Spent_Nuclear_Fuel_ID42.docx