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Abstracts Session 29
The project includes opportunity studies of dedicated facilities. The écothèque and géothèque projects contribute to memory
respectively through environmental and geological samples preservation. The options of creating (i) an archive centre for Andras
interim and permanent archives, (ii) an artist center to study the contribution of arts to memory preservation, (iii) a museum of
radioactive waste disposal history and technology (radium industry..., sea disposal&, current solutions...) are considered.
Other studies provided by the project examine our heritage. This includes the continuity of languages and symbolic systems,
the continuity of writing and engraving methods, the archaeology of landscapes (memory of the earths evolution, multi-century
memory of industrial and agricultural landscapes&), the archaeology practices (how might a future archaeologist be interested in
our current activity?), the preservation of historical sites and industrial memory, the continuity of institutional organizations, the
memory and history of science evolution as well as broad history.
Significant studies address social issues, such...
6) ENGAGING LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS ON TECHNICAL ISSUES:
TEST CASE AT THE LA HAGUE REPROCESSING PLANT (wP - 59211)
Ludivine Gilli, Institut de radioprotection et de sûreténucléaire (IRSN) (France)
As the French public expert in the nuclear field, the Institute for Nuclear Safety and Radioprotection (IRSN) has for several
years advocated the need to engage citizens on technical issues pertaining to radioactive waste management. This belief in the usefulness
of citizens involvement to enhance nuclear safety has led IRSN to initiate numerous pilot actions in cooperation with local
actors.
In 2009-2010, IRSN tackled a new pilot action regarding the decommissioning of the HAO (High Activity Oxide) workshop,
located on Arevas fuel reprocessing plant site, in La Hague, North-western France. The purpose of that action was to experiment
ways for IRSN and local actors to engage in technical discussions with a concrete objective in mind: contributing to enable the local
stakeholders to take a stand on the operators decommissioning application.
A pilot action was useful here, because the challenges are many when it comes to engaging with citizens on technical matters.
First, there is a significant knowledge and cultural gap between most local stakeholders and the nuclear professionals, which
prevents the formers to get a grip on technical issues. Hence, both parts must make an effort to understand and be understood. The
local actors must moreover build a technical capacity...
7) CREATING AND MANAGING RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES
WITH THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE LOCAL POPULATIONS (w/oP - 59286)
Sébastien Farin, Andra (France)
Andra is responsible for proposing and implementing industrial management solutions for all French radioactive waste. Andra
is in particular in charge of operating the two repositories in the Aube region, monitoring the Manche repository one of the world’s
first surface repositories and creating disposal facilities for waste currently without an operational disposal solution.
Andra’s communication approach.
Andra’s communication role is stipulated by law and is an integral part of its activities, in the same way as research, industry
or risk management. Andra’s aim is to make the subject of radioactive waste management one that is of nationwide interest comprehensible
to the largest possible number, so that each citizen and stakeholder can, in full possession of the facts, make his or her
own opinion and finally reach an informed decision.
Andra’s communication policy is based on four main levers:
• Information, through a full range of tools (websites, publications, periodicals) adapted to the level of expertise and understanding
of its various target audiences;
• Explanation, by means of opportunities throughout the year for those interested in the subject (site visits, fairs, meetings
with schools, travelling exhibitions, etc.);
• Local integration, through regular relations with local players and ...
SESSION 29 — PANEL: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION:
NEA ROAD MAP, HOW TO INCREASE SYNERGY (3.12)
ABSTRACTS NOT REQUIRED
SESSION 30 — SITING, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION
OF L/ILW DISPOSAL FACILITIES - PART 1 OF 2 (1.12)
1) AN INNOVATIVE DESIGN FOR LOW AND INTERMEDIATE RADWASTE NEAR
SURFACE REPOSITORY IN LITHUANIA (w/oP-59382)
Boniface Jean-Michel, AREVA TA (France)
In 2009, in response to an open tender, funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, a consortium comprising
Lithuanian and French partners led by Areva was selected by Ignalina nuclear power plant (INPP) to design a dedicated
100.000 m3 LILW-SL Near Surface Repository (NSR) planned to be constructed nearby the power plant.
After preliminary siting studies, the site of Stabatiske was selected by the Lithuanian government in 2007. Following this decision,
the projects technical and commercial requirements for the NSR design was prepared by experts from INPP with the support
of the Lithuanian radwaste management agency (RATA).
This NSR is to be developed and engineered for the disposal of INPP radwaste produced by its operation, and arising from its
dismantling. The result of the project is to develop, following IAEA guidelines, an innovative multi-barrier repository design which
is engineered for the Stabatiske site, with the presence of groundwater, for the sites characteristics, comprising clay layers, moraine
deposits and aquifers, and for the volume and type of radwaste, the disposal containers and the engineered barriers. This design is
on schedule for completion in 2013, and will provide the basis for the construction of the repository, the first facilities of…
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