Symposium on International Safeguards: Linking Strategy, Implementation and People - IAEA CN-220

Session

Safeguards Needs at Geological Repositories and Encapsulation Facilities

14 GEO

22 Oct 2014, 09:00

M Building

Conveners

Safeguards Needs at Geological Repositories and Encapsulation Facilities

• Klaas Van der Meer (Belgium)
• Larry Satkowiak (USA)

Safeguards Needs at Geological Repositories and Encapsulation Facilities

• Larry Satkowiak (USA)
• Klaas van der Meer (Belgium)

131. Developing Safeguards for Final Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Finland

Olli Okko (STUK)

22/10/2014, 09:10

oral

Final disposal of spent nuclear fuel brings new types of safeguards concerns. The non-verifiability and non-accessibility of the disposed fuel create a challenge in creating and preserving reliable knowledge about the nuclear material and its location. Therefore, a verified information package consisting of spent fuel characterization and site investigation data shall be generated for future...

23. Safeguards by Design at the Encapsulation Plant in Finland

Yuri Yudin (IAEA)

22/10/2014, 09:30

oral

Finland has launched a spent fuel disposition project to encapsulate all of its spent fuel assemblies and confine the disposal canisters in a deep geological repository. The construction of the underground premises started several years ago with the drilling, blasting and reinforcement of tunnels and shafts to ensure the safe deep underground construction and disposal techniques in the...

103. Operator View on Safeguards Implementation for New Type of Facilities (encapsulation plant and geological repository)

Veli-Matti Ammala (Finland)

22/10/2014, 09:50

oral

The Finnish solution for the geological disposal of spent nuclear fuel is based on a facility complex consisting of an above ground encapsulation plant and an underground disposal facility that are connected by a vertical shaft transferring the encapsulated fuel into the repository. The schedule was outlined in 1983, when the Government decided on the objectives and programme for the nuclear...

243. Safeguarding Geological Repositories – R&D Contributions from the GER SP

Irmgard Niemeyer (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

22/10/2014, 10:10

oral

Germany has contributed actively to R&D related to safeguarding geological repositories since 1980, first on the national level, since 1990 also through the SAGOR (II) and ASTOR group of experts, and other German Support Programme (GER SP) tasks. While earlier studies identified issues of essential relevance (aspects of retrievability, need for Design Information Verification (DIV), definition...

166. Safeguards Aspects Regarding a Geological Repository in Sweden

Lars Hildingsson (Swedish Radiation Safety Authority)

22/10/2014, 11:00

oral

Swedish spent nuclear fuel will be deposited in a geological repository after having been encapsulated in copper canisters. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) has applied for licenses to build an encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn and a geological repository at Forsmark. The encapsulated fuel will be transported by ship in specially constructed transport containers from...

238. Experimental and Analytical Plans for the Non-destructive Assay System of the Swedish Encapsulation and Repository Facilities

Stephen Tobin (LANL, UU, SKB)

22/10/2014, 11:20

oral

The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB), European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), two universities and several U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories have joined in a collaborative research effort to determine the capability of non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques to meet the combined needs of the safeguards community and the Swedish encapsulation and repository...