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EPR UK N° NESH-G/2008/en/0123 REV. A PAGE 254 / 257 15 CONCLUSIONS This SRWSR sets out management arrangements for processing and interim storage of waste and spent fuel generated by the UK EPR in accordance with the UK Government policy and regulatory constraints. The SRWSR provides a high degree of confidence that the challenges associated with the management of solid waste and spent fuel from the UK EPR are fully understood and that solutions are available with the envelope of current UK and international experience. Specifically it demonstrates that: · The production of radioactive waste will be avoided and where this is not reasonably practicable, the quantity of waste produced will be minimised; · The radioactive wastes generated by the UK EPR are similar of those wastes generated by operating PWRs and all waste streams have process routes to interim storage or final disposal/solution; · A number of waste and spent fuel options to the FA3 Reference Case which are based on nationally or internationally proven technologies and the experience from EPR and AREVA projects are available for the UK EPR; · The dominance of short-lived radionuclides in some ILW will enable it to be declassified to LLW within the on-site interim storage period. The base case waste treatment facilities for each UK EPR site include: · Waste Treatment Building for the receipt, segregation, treatment and conditioning of solid radioactive wastes; · Interim Storage Facility for solid ILW packages; · Spent fuel Interim Storage Facility for receipt, packaging and safe interim storage of spent fuel. The facilities are modular in design and may be adapted to cope with future process changes and to maintain an appropriate capacity storage volume. It is assumed that the decommissioning of the UK EPR will commence immediately after shutdown and de-fuelling. The decommissioning of the UK EPR can be performed in approximately 12 years. This duration is indicative and depends on the dismantling scenario and programme adopted by each utility.
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