IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
Monika Kinker
Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management Unit
Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety - NSRW
Update of IAEA Activities in Relation to the
CRAFT project
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Small
Generators RW
Storage
Classification
2010
2006
2008
Management
Systems
L/ILW Reactors
DS 448
HLW FCFs
DS 447
RW in the Safety Standards
Spent Fuel
Storage
2012
DS 454
2013
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GSG-3: Safety Guide
• Demonstrating the Safety of RWM
• Safety Case • Role, Components, Documentation and Use
• Safety Assessment • Approach, Scenarios, Models, Analysis of Results
• Specific Issues • SC evolution, graded approach, DID, facility lifetime, LTS
• Regulatory Review Process
Annex I Examples of Hazards and Initiating Events
Annex II Topical Issues for Review of SC
Annex III Template of Regulatory Review Report
Annex IV SADRWMS Project
Proposal to June 2010 WASSC
-> CRAFT
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CRAFT (Complimentary Safety Reports: Development and
Application to Waste Management Facilities)
3 Year Project • 1st Plenary May 2011
• 2nd Plenary June 2012
• 3rd Plenary June 2013
• Final Plenary November 2014
Objectives: 1. APPLY GSG-3, SADRWMS methodology, SAFRAN
Tool
2. PROVIDE a forum for application of the methodology
and SAFRAN tool
3. DEVELOP, document Safety Reports TECDOCs
illustrating application of GSG-3 • Facility/process specific
• Safety Case Process/Regulatory Review
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Long-term Project • 1st Plenary Meeting in 2003
• Final Plenary in 2010
Objectives: 1. EXAMINE the application of
safety assessment
methodology (ISAM, ASAM)
2. DEVELOP, document • Safety Assessment
Methodology
• Regulatory Review
• ---> GSG-3
3. INTEGRATE methodology
into software tool (SAFRAN)
SADRWMS Project Safety Assessment Driving Radioactive Waste Management Solutions
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CRAFT Working Methods
Radon Type Facility Application Case • develop illustrative test case(s) for applying the IAEA
methodology/tools to RADON type facilities (on the base
of RW retrieval activity at Murmansk RADON);
Storage and Processing Facility • Apply IAEA methodology/tools to facilities for the storage
and processing of RW
• 2 facilities: Central Storage Facility in Slovenia, Waste
Processing Facility in Serbia.
Regulatory Interactions • Apply IAEA methodology/tools in regulatory review of
WG application cases, and provide recommendations
• Integrated into the Application WGs
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Radon Type Facility WG
Background
The system of RADON enterprises was
established the USSR in early 1960s
collection, transportation, processing and disposal of LILW
wastes and DSRS, generated or used in medicine, research
institutions, various branches of industry
35 “Radon” facilities in the Soviet Union
16 of them in the Russian Federation
Designed and operated as disposal facilities for institutional
LILW without intention of the retrieval
Do not meet current safety requirement for
NSD (long lived alpha emitters, high active DSRS)
Long term storage (inspection, retrievability etc.)
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Radon Type Facility WG
Background
• Operators of RADON type facilities are required
to perform safety assessment to support decision making
• Decision making depends not only from the safety issues
but from socio-political, technical and economic aspects
• Most common options include:
• decommissioning of facility
• upgraded storage facility
• upgraded disposal facility
• Measures considered:
• partial or complete RW retrieval & conditioning
• reconstruction
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Radon Type Facility WG
Background
• Typical historical repositories are vaults below ground level with volumes 200 - 9000 m3
• basement made of concrete plates,
• walls made of monolithic reinforced concrete or concrete blocks,
• divided with concrete or wooden walls into cells (sections),
• the top is covered with reinforced concrete plates, sand and waterproof asphalt layer
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Radon Type Facility WG
OBJECTIVES • Develop illustrative test case(s) for applying the GSG-3
methodology to RADON type facilities with links to the
use of the SAFRAN or other tools (on the basis of RW
retrieval activity at Murmansk RADON);
• Adopt the safety assessment methodology presented in
the GSG-3 for the RADON type facilities (including RAW
retrieval);
• Provide Member States with the supporting information
for decision making regarding the future of existing
historical RADON-type facilities
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Radon Type Facility WG
Work plan
By June 2013:
Final versions of the test cases approved by the
working group
Discussion of the draft methodology
Consultation with the Regulatory WG
By June 2014:
Approval of the methodology for the RADON Type
Facilities safety assessment by the working group
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Regulatory Interactions WG
OBJECTIVES • Check compliance of GSG-3 methodology and SAFRAN
tool for regulatory review of WG application cases
TASKS 1. Review of SAFRAN models, specifically SAFCALC and
regulatory modules
2. Develop guidance for regulatory review of application
cases
3. Review and further development of regulatory review
tools such as the “SAFREQ” module
4. Develop guidance for graded approach for safety
assessment.
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17-21 June 2013 Meeting
• 19 specialists from 13 MS (Canada, Croatia,
Cuba, France, Germany, Lithuania, Norway,
Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia,
Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United
States of America)
• Chair: Mr. Chris Fisher (UK)
• Co-chair: Mr. Frederic Ledroit (France)
• IAEA Scientific Secretary: Monika Kinker
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Objectives of the 2013 Meeting
• CRAFT Working Groups • Work done to date
• Publication of GSG-3, SADRWMS Methodology • GSG-3: April 2013 (May 3rd most viewed)
• SADRWMS TECDOC: 4Q 2013?
• “Mediterranean Project” • Reinforcing SA capabilities using SAFRAN
• Norwegian Sponsorship • Support development, documentation of the CRAFT
RADON-type Facility Application Case
• Policy implications of legacy waste sites, especially
those in close proximity to Norway
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Future Activities
• RADON WG
• October in Stockholm, Sweden. starts development of the initial
version of the draft report of the Application of the Safety Case
and Safety Assessment Methodology using SAFRAN Tool for
RADON-type facilities (on the basis of the Murmansk RADON
facility).
• RW Storage and Processing WG
• December in Zagreb, Croatia. will host a national workshop on the
IAEA methodology and tools for the development and review of
the SC and SA. WG will use their working material to further
develop their report and to get feedback.
• RW Regulatory WG
• 1Q 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia. will host a national workshop
• Final Plenary proposed for November 2014 in Vienna 15
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SAFRAN Tool
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