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September 10, 2013, Ispra, Italy
Jacques Delay, Secretary General
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What is IGD-TP?
In 2009, several European waste management organizations have
established a technology platform to accelerate the implementation
of deep geological disposal of radioactive waste in Europe.
A technology platform called Implementing Geological Disposal of
Radioactive Waste (IGD-TP) was launched in November 2009. The aims
of IGD-TP is to:
• reduce overlapping work,
• to produce savings in total costs of research and implementation,
and
• to make better use of existing competence and research
infrastructures.
According to our organisation ToR, our platform is industry-led to
ensure the implementation of the RD&D results. Thus, the
members of the EG shall be organisations either being responsible
for implementing a nuclear waste management programme or being
formally responsible for RD&D programme needed for
implementation
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Strategic Documentation
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Our vision and our commitment
Our commitment is to:
build confidence in the safety of geological disposal solutions
among
European citizens and decision-makers
encourage the establishment of waste management programmes
that
integrate geological disposal as the accepted option for the safe
long-
term management of long-lived and/or high-level waste
facilitate access to expertise and technology and maintain
competences in the field of geological disposal for the benefit of
Member States
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Why a geological disposal?
Internationally recommended solution as the end point of
radioactive waste management
Potential risk linked with high-level and/or long-lived radioactive
waste (incl. spent nuclear fuels when declared as waste) during
several hundreds thousand years. Only a “passive” system can ensure
safety for such a long period
“passive”: without the need for human intervention to guarantee
long-
term safety (but without precluding the possibility of such
intervention
during a certain period of time)
suitable (stable, …) geological formation at depth, combined with
man-
made barriers
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Geological disposals under construction
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IGD-TP Participants
From EU countries + NWMO + RWMC …
100 participants committed by the vision
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Executive group members
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Deployment of activities – SRA Key Topics
Safety case
Technical feasibility and long-term performance of repository
components
Monitoring
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Dialogue with regulators,
memory keeping),
supporting information exchange.
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JA Joint Activity EU Project 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 On-going
Activity
JA1 Waste forms and their behaviour
First-Nuclides Start date 2012- 01-01 Duration
36 months
36 months
Duration 42 months
CAST Project
Generation & migration of C14 species (to be submitted in
Nov.
2012)
Status of the Joint Activities (1/3)
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Status of the Joint Activities (2/3)
JA Joint Activity EU Project 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 On-going
Activity
JA6
interactions
Duration 48 months
Design of the overall system of engineered barriers (EBS)
(incl.
sealing/backfilling) and the
Duration 54 months
Activity will start after the completion of the MoDeRn
project
JA8 Safety Case Peer
JA10
crystalline environments
Concrete project?
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Status of the Joint Activities (3/3) JA Joint Activity EU Project
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 On-going Activity
JA11
project in preparation
JA14
Competence,
Maintenance,
in 2012
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Underground research laboratories in the world
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Purpose of URLs
Disposal system design • Rock mass properties
• Waste containers
• Engineered barriers
• Verify characteristics
• Evaluate performance
Evaluation of safety • Develop tools to carry out safety
analysis
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Activities at URLs
Testing • Characterization methods
• Characterization, testing
• Waste emplacement/retrieval
• Repository closure
Technology demonstration
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Types of URLs
Generic URLs
• Developed for research and testing purposes at a site that will
not
be used for waste disposal
• Provide information that may support disposal elsewhere
Site-specific URLs
• Developed at a location considered as a potential site for
waste
disposal
• May be a precursor to the development of a repository at the
site
Pilot Plants
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Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (Sweden)
Full-scale research and development in preparation for construction
of a final repository for spent nuclear fuel
Extensive international participation
• 1986-1990 – Site characterization
• 1990 – Construction begins
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Mont Terri Rock Laboratory (Switzerland)
•Support for Project Opalinus Clay
•Project timeline
proposed
initiated
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How it works? Example Plug and Seal
From the call to the project
Dopas Project: Includes 4 full scale tests: Andra Full Scale Seal
(FSS) Rawra Experimental Pressure Plug (EPP) SKB Deposition tunnel
plug demonstration
(DOMPLU) Posiva Deposition tunnel plug demonstration
(POPLU)
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How it works? Example Plug and Seal
Partners
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How it works? Example Plug and Seal
WP vs Experiments
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How it works? Example Plug and Seal
Achievements to date
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IGD-TP major achievements to date
In line with the SRA Key topics and DP
• 12 of 16 Joint Activities already launched
• 7 EU project launched or to be launched
Way forward
• One or two EU projects to be launched per year
• 4 JA to be launched before 2016
• Involvement of a broader range of stakeholders
• New ways of working together to be studied
• Stimulating new ideas that could complement the SRA
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SecIGD2 - Specific Actions towards less advanced programmes
The SecIGD2 has a specific work package to help network, structure
and develop RD&D competences in countries with less advanced
geological disposal programmes.
The SecIGD2 supports the development and coordination of needed
competences to meet the Vision 2025 as a part of the platform's
Competence maintenance, Education and Training working group.
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SecIGD2 WP2
Support for networking, structuring and developing RD&D
competences in countries with less advanced geological disposal
programmes This work package led by the UK’s Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority
(NDA) aims at Providing specific support to a Working Group (WG) in
charge of networking, structuring and developing RD&D
competences in countries with less advanced geological disposal
programmes
This work package will support the organisation for two
international conferences for disseminating the public scientific
and technical information and results derived from the IGD-TP's
Joint Activities and from other RD&D efforts in the field of
geological disposal.
Experience collected from international and bilateral cooperation
will be used to develop the methods to ensure effective resource
utilisation in the knowledge transfer States.
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SecIGD2- WP3 CMET
Support for the development, implementation and coordination of
Competence Maintenance, Education and Training (CMET) activities in
geological disposal in Europe.
The IGD-TP's SRA 2011 identified the current knowledge specific to
geological
disposal in the field of CMET, where the community is fairly small
compared with the rest of the nuclear sector.
In geological disposal a very broad range of qualifications,
competence and expertise are required for a wide range of
scientific and technical disciplines and humanities, including
economics, communication, and competence development.
Simultaneously, the RTD community in geological disposal competes
with a large variety of industries and research institutes to
attract suitably qualified personnel
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October 29-30 2013
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June 24-26, 2014