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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF SPENT FUEL FROM NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS Session 6 : Stakeholder Issues C. Pescatore, Chair. Vienna 1 st June , 2010. Panel members. Mr. Junichiro MIYASHITA – Japan ; Mayor ( Mutsu ; hosting city of Japan’s first SF interim storage facility)
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF SPENT FUEL FROM NUCLEAR POWER REACTORSSession 6 : Stakeholder IssuesC. Pescatore, Chair Vienna 1st June , 2010
Panel members • Mr. Junichiro MIYASHITA – Japan ; Mayor (Mutsu; hosting city of Japan’s first SF interim storage facility) • Mr. Rolf PERSSON – Sweden ; Local Community Organization (Oskarshamn) • Mr Gustavo GONZALEZ – Chile ; Disarmament expert from Ministry Foreign Affairs • Mr Mariano MOLINA – Spain ; Industrial implementer (company connected to national government) • Mr. Thomas FLÜELER – Switzerland ; Independent specialist from academia and cantonal government officer • Mr. Claudio PESCATORE – OECD/NEA ; Independent specialist , close to national Governments of the OECD.
WHY STAKEHOLDER ISSUES ? • Stakeholder = anyone with an interest (Aarhus Convention; OECD/NEA) • Public has already voiced both concerns about, but also interest in, spent fuel management. • In modern democracies there is no future for spent reactor fuel management without public involvement … • shared or publicly supported decisions result in in more durable solutions and, because of this, better solutions by and in them themselves (good balance between technical and social demands) • localities and regions in most countries possess a host of legal means to block any unwanted project
Panel members’ countries situations regarding spent power-reactor fuel • Chile ; Nuclear power under study • Spain ; Several NPPs; SF is waste; Siting process for national centralised facility • Sweden ; Several NPPs; SF is waste; National centralised facility operating; close to developing SF repository • Switzerland ; Several NPPs; SF is waste; No national centralized storage facility; ongoing siting process for SF repository • Japan ; Several NPPs; SF is resource; No national centralised facility;
Four questions - 1 • In your personal view or experience, what is the “symbolism” associated with spent fuel? Namely, what images it inspires, what attitudes it promotes ?
Four questions - 2 • If a spent fuel management facility (storage or disposal) is foreseen/proposed in a community: how to build a durable relationship between the facility and the community?Which would be the main ingredients for it? Do you have examples?
Four questions - 3 • Is spent fuel management a national problem, or one between the owner of the SF and the host communities of the various facilities (interim storage, long-term storage, disposal)?
Four questions - 4 • To what extent the timescale(s) for managing the spent fuel is (are) an issue to the various stakeholders? Do you have actual examples and data?