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NRPA Interests in CRAFT Project

Malgorzata K Sneve

Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority

Complimentary Safety Reports, Development and Application to Waste

Management Facilities

IAEA CRAFT technical Meeting

Vienna, 16 – 20 June 2013

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Norwegian Plan of Action for

Nuclear and Radiation Safety in NW Russia

Overall Objectives

Generate confidence that nuclear legacy management

is under-pinned by a robust and independent regulatory

process, by

Working with relevant authorities to support them in

their regulatory supervision over specific problems,

adopting

A holistic approach to environmental and human health

protection, avoiding short term measures which create

new legacies

Plan of Action updated in 2013

indicating a long-term sustained policy

of regulatory cooperation

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Large range of legacies in Russia and CA

SF and RW temporary store Andreeva

Nuclear submarine dismantling

Decommissioning of RTGs in lighthouses

Uranium mine and mill tailings

Lepse Decommissioning

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Poor abnormal condition of facilities

View of old SNF storage building and containers with SNF in 2003

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Bi-lateral regulatory cooperation

State Atomic Energy Corporation (Rosatom)

Directorate of State Supervision of Nuclear and

Radiation Safety of the Ministry of Defense

Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA)

Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear

Supervision Service of Russia (Rostechnadzor)

Focus on:

Clarification of roles and responsibilities of all

involved organisations

Integrated consideration of legacy issues to

support coherent risk supervision

Development of practical regulatory requirements

and guidance relevant to the abnormal situations

Agreement with the Russian Ministry

of Defence renewed this year

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What has been achieved?

Timely development of official regulatory guidance to

address the abnormal conditions for:

Personnel Radiation Safety

Emergency preparedness and response

Control and monitoring of environmental contamination

Protection of the public

Radioactive waste management

Designed to support a comprehensive basis for design and development of remediation operations within an effective regulatory framework for:

radiation protection and nuclear safety, and

transfer from military to civilian supervision of radioactive materials.

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Focus of Next Steps

Practical application of the enhanced guidance

Application of optimization

Ensuring compliance through enforcement and

inspection

Coordination among all authorities, working in parallel

Arrangement for emergency preparedness and

response, because just now the most hazardous SNF

and RW recovery operations are due to start, and

Radioactive waste management!

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View of Saida Bay Centre of Conditioning and Long-

term Storage facility in 2007

Reactor

compartment

storage pad in

foreground;

RW

conditioning

facility under

construction,

background

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Waste management outputs

Radiation safety requirements for the Saida Bay Centre

of Conditioning and Long-term Storage of RW

Regulatory Guidelines on re-categorizing nuclear

materials as radioactive waste (fuel fragments in RW)

Criteria for on-site management and disposal of

industrial hazardous waste radioactively contaminated

above exemption levels, i.e. Very Low Level Waste

(VLLW)

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Links to IAEA programs

International working Forum for regulatory supervision

of Legacy Sites (RSLS)

Modaria:

WG1 Remediation strategies and decision aiding

techniques

WG3 Application of models for assessing

radiological impacts arising from NORM and

radioactively contaminated legacy sites

CRAFT!

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NRPA role and work in CRAFT

Regulatory Review Working Group

Financial and technical support for the RADON-type

Facility Application Case

Participate in the Project Steering Group

Outputs should support:

Regulatory decision making in general; and

Selection of remediation options, e.g. if to remove

already emplaced waste for further processing,

repacking and re-emplacement, or to leave where it is.

Problematic because it includes not just demonstrating

compliance with limits, but also compliance with

optimisation requirements.