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Enhancing Radioactive Source Management Strategies

This wrap-up highlights key discussions from Working Group 4 on storage, disposal, safety, source conditioning, funding, inventory, stakeholder involvement, and management systems for radioactive sources. Details on implementing control systems, safety assessments, stakeholder communication, and funding mechanisms are covered. Participants emphasized the importance of upgrading storage facilities, safety considerations, and effective management systems. Future publications and training modules were planned to enhance industry practices.

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Enhancing Radioactive Source Management Strategies

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  1. Wrap up of Working Group 4:Storage and disposal of disused sealed radioactive sources Workshop on implementation of a national cradle-to-grave control system for radioactive sourcesIAEA, Vienna, 13 – 17 March 2017

  2. Working group 4 • Designing and upgrading storage facilities • most issues on storage facility design concerned on how to upgrade older storage facilities • particular questions were raised on the monitoring equipment for storage facilities, the ventilation system and the fire protection strategy

  3. Working group 4 • Safety case and safety assessment • for storage and disposal facilities • operational safety and long-term safety • for operators (developing safety case and safety assessment) and for regulators (reviewing safety case and safety assessment) • guidance in defining source acceptance criteria • equipment, tools and expertise to do source characterisation

  4. Working group 4 Safety case and safety assessment • 15-19 May 2017, Indonesia: Development, Revision and Implementation of the Safety Case and Safety Assessment • 12-16 June 2017, Argentina: Regulatory Review of the Safety Case

  5. Working group 4 • Source conditioning • request for conditioning campaigns using the Mobile Hot Cell or Mobile Tool Kit • assistance in developing conditioning facilities and training in operating these facilities

  6. Working group 4 • More “practical” information on the DSRS borehole disposal concept • request to “witness” or learn from the borehole disposal projects in Ghana and Malaysia

  7. Working group 4 Funding mechanisms for source management • how to charge users for the management of DSRS ? • how to take account of possible future cost for disposal ? • how to avoid that charging for source management will be an incentive for “getting rid of the DSRS” ? • 22-26 May 2017, Vienna: Technical Meeting on “Costing methods and funding schemes for radioactive waste disposal programmes” • publication of TECDOC foreseen for 2018 • e-learning module is planned to be developed

  8. Working group 4 Establishing a source inventory • what software tools or management systems can be used to build and maintain a source inventory ? • how to deal with historic sources for which documentation is missing ? • 5-9 June 2017, Cuba: Inventory Verification and Records Keeping

  9. Working group 4 • Stakeholder involvement and communication • how to set up a dialogue with the public and other stakeholders about the source management programme and the siting of storage or disposal facilities ? • how to deal with transboundary issues ? • publication of TECDOC “Communication and Stakeholder Involvement in Radioactive Waste Disposal” foreseen for 2018 • e-learning module on stakeholder involvement is being developed

  10. Working group 4 • Management systems supporting source management • quality management systems

  11. Working group 4 • General recommendation • meeting participants expressed a need for focused and hands-on trainings, possibly supported by case studies or some exercises

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