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R&D will be required to
complement industrial
activities in relation to
developments and the
generation of
know-how necessary for
radioactive waste management
and not yet
part of the commercial
domain.
R&D into the Radioactive
Waste Management
will use economical
resources (5.000
Million pesetas) to improve
safety and to protect
environment.
The R&D Plan is structured
into three major
areas: “Reference
Framework”, Research
Programmes and
Courses of Action” and
“Financing, tracking
and management of
know-how and technology”.
The R&D activities will
be required to adapt to
changes at national
and international level,
as a result of which they
should be revised annually.
ENRESA dedicates
funds amounting to
10% of its annual budget
to Research and
Development.
Plan de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Gestión de Residuos Radiactivos (1999-2003)
currently existing within a conventional or
commercial framework and required for the
management of low, intermediate and high
level wastes, including dismantling, radiological
protection or environmental intervention in
the event of radioactive contamination.
Unlike other industrial areas in which R&D
consumes resources to generate know-how
that is then used to increase commercial
profit, the resources used to generate
knowledge in the field of radioactive waste
management are aimed at achieving safety,
proposing and justifying the most adequate
environmental actions, through which the
public service that society expects from radioactive
waste management agencies is
provided.
The ENRESA R&D Plan springs from the
high technological level achieved from the
preceding plans, and is closely linked to the
main projects being undertaken in European
underground laboratories and nuclear
research centres, as well as to the European
Union’s 5 th Framework Programme. In
general terms, it may be defined as a plan
oriented towards the “Technological Verification”
of activities involved in direct fuel
disposal, “Technological Initiation” as regards
the exhaustive treatment and reduction
of the radiotoxicity of the wastes, as a
preliminary step towards their final disposal,
and as a “Technology Maintenance and Integration”
Plan as regards the availability of
the strategic methodologies and capabilities
that ENRESA will need to maintain and apply
throughout management of these
wastes.
The 1999-2003 R&D Plan document is
structured in three major areas. The first
(Part A), entitled “Reference framework for
the R&D associated with radioactive waste
management”, describes the reasons underlying
the R&D needs, the international situation
regarding radioactive waste management
and the respective R&D plans, along
with the technological level attained and the
situation and future perspectives for management
of this type of wastes in Spain.
Also detailed are the objectives, criteria
and priorities for the development of R&D
during the period 1999-2010, with special
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emphasis on the period 1999-2003, which
is the one covered by this present R&D Plan.
The second area (Part B) is entitled “Research
Programmes and Courses of Action”
and describes the areas and courses of activity,
based on the objectives and priorities
mapped out. It also contains a more detailed
description of the state of the art and
the developments required to meet the objectives
of this Plan.
The areas of research included in the present
Plan have been selected with a view to
ensuring better compliance with the new directives
included in the GRWP, and are as
follows:
Basic Technologies of waste characterisation
and behaviour, applicable to
various fields of management undertaken
by ENRESA.
Separation and Transmutation.
Disposal.
Performance and Safety assessment.
Support of facilities: low and intermediate
level wastes, dismantling and radiological
protection.
The third area (Part C), entitled “Financing,
Tracking, Organisation and Management
of Know-how and Technology”, describes
the budgets assigned, the criteria and methods
to be applied to achieve the objectives
mapped out and the mechanisms to be applied
in managing the products and results
generated by this R&D Plan, as regards both
the purely technical aspects of support for
ENRESA’s in-house activities and communications
aimed at all levels of society.
In the present Plan, which advocates farreaching
participation in European underground
laboratories, as a solution palliating
the lack of a national technology centre for
experimentation into deep geological disposal,
the coordination and synthesis of the
different working groups and results acquires
special importance. In this respect,
the aim is to take advantage of the possibilities
provided by computer and communications
technologies to develop a “Virtual
Technology Centre” meaning the full and
formal integration of the working groups,
laboratories and procedures, to bring them