Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.1 - Global Picture of Nuclear Back End Activities and Relevant IAEA Programmes
This webinar is the first in the IAEA’s Nuclear Back End Webinar Series, focusing on how to advance national nuclear back end programmes. During this webinar, international experts will highlight the importance of advance arrangements for management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste as well as decommissioning of nuclear facilities. They will also address the main challenges and issues in developing back-end capacities for both small and big nuclear programmes, and the conditions and qualities needed to provide safe, secure and effective solutions in efficient way
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.2 - Managing NORM in the Industry: Highlights of the IAEA International Conference
This webinar is the second in the IAEA’s Nuclear Back End Webinar Series, focusing on the management of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in industrial operations. During this webinar, international experts will highlight the main conclusions and recommendations resulting from the IAEA NORM-2020 International Conference. It covers a wide variety of topics that include Policy and Strategies for NORM, Inventory Determination, Decommissioning of NORM Facilities, Environmental Remediation of NORM Contaminated Sites, etc. Importantly, this webinar will emphasize the sustainability aspects of NORM residue/waste management in the context of the circular economy concepts and aligned with the waste management hierarchy principles.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.3 - Accident Tolerant Fuels and Their Impact on Spent Fuel Management
This webinar is the third in the IAEA’s Nuclear Back End Webinar Series, focusing on evolutionary Accident Tolerant Fuel (eATF) designs and their impact in the different steps of fuel management after discharged from the reactor core: storage, transportation, recycling and disposal. During this webinar, international experts will provide an overview of the different accident tolerant fuel designs that can be deployed in the short term (next decade). It will assess the potential implications these designs may have on the backend of the fuel cycle and highlight the importance of collecting, during the development of these eATFs, data that will be necessary to implement backend steps, recognizing that some information needed to qualify fuels for reactors’ operation is also relevant for the backend.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.4 - Data Analysis and Collection for Costing of Research Reactor Decommissioning
This webinar is the fourth in the IAEA Back End Wednesday Webinar Series, focusing on costing of research reactor decommissioning. During this webinar, international experts will highlight the fundamentals of decommissioning cost estimation as well as the importance of addressing uncertainty levels in the estimate. They will also address the implications of different assumptions concerning the radiological inventory present in the facility to be decommissioned, highlighting the conclusions of the recently completed DACCORD project.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.5 - Integrated View of the Spent Fuel Management Steps for Decision Making
This webinar is the fifth in the IAEA Back End Wednesday Webinar Series, focusing on highlighting the importance of having an integrated view of all steps involved in the management of spent fuel — from discharge from the core, to recycling or disposal.
During this webinar, international experts will highlight the interdependencies among the different steps, the potential impacts that today’s decisions may have on future steps, and the various decision makers involved in the implementation of a spent fuel management programme. Examples of different country approaches will be included.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.6 - Women Leading Nuclear Back End Projects: Their Stories and Achievements
This webinar is the sixth in the IAEA Back End Wednesday Webinar Series, focusing on opportunities for women leadership in management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste, nuclear decommissioning and environmental remediation. During this webinar, female international experts will answer the questions on their way to top managerial positions in nuclear back end projects. They will also address the technical and managerial issues and challenges they had to solve and overcome.
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Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.7 - Fukushima Daiichi Progress and Prospects on Decommissioning and Remediation
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011 was a rare nuclear accident in which multiple units were severely damaged by a natural disaster. The area surrounding the nuclear power station was also severely affected by the nuclear accident. .. enter the course to see more description.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.8 - Chornobyl NPP Decommissioning Progress and Prospects
The accident at Unit 4 of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in April 1986 left a devastating legacy that still poses challenges over 30 years after the accident.
Over recent decades, a lot of progress has been achieved in dealing with the accident legacy, including major new ChNPP infrastructure projects such as the New Safe Confinement, Interim Spent Fuel Storage of dry type, and Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant, all have been financed through multi-donor Funds managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Some additional facilities have been financed directly by the European Commission (including the ICSRM1), the United States and other key Donors. These facilities have provided the cornerstone for implementation of longer-term safe and secure management of radioactive waste and spent fuel.
At this point in time, 35 years after the accident and 20 after the final shutdown of the last operating reactor, the webinar summarizes the progress of decommissioning activities and highlights major decommissioning challenges as well as approaches and efforts to overcome them.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.9 - Building an International Safety Framework for Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation
The IAEA’s Global Nuclear Safety and Security Framework (GNSSF) is a basic conceptual structure and a set of guiding principles for achieving and maintaining a high level of safety and security at nuclear facilities and activities around the world. This webinar will describe and elaborate upon the GNSSF as it applies to facilities and activities associated with spent fuel and radioactive waste management, environmental releases, decommissioning and remediation of contaminated areas.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.10 - Experiences in Setting Up Funds for Back End Liabilities in Nuclear Power Programmes
A fundamental prerequisite for a sustainable waste management programme is the provision of financial resources to cover the costs of the programme. Developing reliable cost estimates and funding mechanisms can be challenging. Waste management does not stop when the nuclear power plant stops operating. A substantial amount of waste is generated by the decommissioning of the nuclear power plant and the disposal of high-level waste or spent fuel generated by the programme can only be done after several decades of cooling in an interim storage facility.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.11 - Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Information System (SRIS): Benefits for Member States, Benefits for Collaboration between International Organizations
All IAEA Member States make use of nuclear technology, to deliver benefits (in science, medicine, agriculture, industry, and electricity). As with any process, this results in some amount of waste, in this case – radioactive waste. To manage this radioactive waste most effectively, a Member State must have a clear understanding of their full national inventory.
Nuclear Back End Webinar Series 1.12 - Nuclear Decommissioning in the Context of Sustainability and Circular Economy
A circular economy is generally described as an economy in which resources are kept in reuse or recycling for as long as possible, retrieving the maximum value from them, then recovering and regenerating products and materials at the end of each lifecycle. It is an approach focused on delivering positive society-wide benefits by limiting waste production and preserving natural resources.
Similar to the concept of sustainable development, the application of circular economy principles in nuclear decommissioning is a relatively new area. Consequently, there is a wide range of interpretations of what this means in practice. Examples might be as follows: reuse of existing constructions or demolished concrete structures as fill materials in pits (to enable leaving a levelled site), free release and recycling of metals and other materials after dismantling and removal from the site, reuse of contaminated components in new equipment on a different or the same nuclear site, circular economy principles based asset management, reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel or diversion of very low-level waste to conventional landfills.
This Webinar will highlight a wide range of considerations on nuclear decommissioning in the context of sustainability and circular economy. Several examples of decommissioning and waste management practices that are in accordance with these principles will be provided. Valuable insights from the experience gained in demolition of large structures in the non-nuclear industry will also be shared.