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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