Third International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management - Challenges and Approaches

Key Information File for Radioactive Waste Repositories

9 Nov 2016, 14:00

15m

Room M3 (IAEA M-Building)

oral Track 4: Managing knowledge for decommissioning, environmental remediation and radioactive waste management projects, including in countries with phase-out plans Technical Session 11

Speaker

Mr Pierre-Henri de La Codre (OECD NEA)

Description

Part of the OECD/NEA RK&M initiative, the Key Information File (KIF) is a document designed to provide a summary of the existence, location and content of a radioactive waste repository. Its primary function would be to maintain both awareness of the site and long-term confidence in the effectiveness of the disposal system, so that the likelihood of unnecessary human disturbance is minimised. In order to ensure this document is accessible to a large audience, it would need to be limited in length. A draft format for the KIF has been proposed, and testing is being conducted on two cases, that of the “Centre de stockage de la Manche”, the closed French Repository (surface) and that of the planned Swedish Spent Fuel Repository (geological).