INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Project # 245 "Radleg"
SUPPLEMENT
International Cooperation in the HLW Management
The different projects concerning the radioactive waste management have been developed by now in Russia and other countries. At the request of the Nordic countries a seminar "International Cooperation on Nuclear Waste Management in the Russian Federation" was organized by IAEA in Vienna 15-17 May 1995. In two working groups at the Seminar participants from the Russian Federation and 17 countries and international organisations co-operating with the Russian Federation in waste management projects recognised the need for setting up a contact group of experts to assist in coordinating their efforts.
As a result of the seminar the Contact Expert Group for International Radwaste Projects was established by participants at the follow-up meeting held in Stockholm in September 1995. Terms of Reference were developed and the IAEA was asked to perform Secretariat duties (B.Semenov, CEG Executive Secretary, IAEA, Vienna). All countries and organisations providing resources to support waste management projects in the Russian Federation are eligible to join the CEG.
The 1st CEG meeting was held in March 1996 in Moscow and from 1 April 1996 the CEG Secretariat (1 1/2 person) has been established by the Director General at the IAEA.
The 2nd CEG meeting was held in Vienna in September 1996 and the Plan of Action for 1996-1997 was considered and approved. The meeting also reviewed the progress in establishing a database of about 100 cooperation projects under way, planned or suggested and outlined steps for its practical use to harmonise the cooperation, avoid overlapping and concentrate efforts on more important, high priority projects.
The 3rd CEG meeting took place in Brussels in January 1997 and resulted in a number of important, action oriented decisions and recommendations directed to strengthening cooperation in the most important high priority areas.
The 4th CEG meeting took place in St.-Petersbourg (Russia) in June 1997. The proceedings are now under preparation by CEG Secretariat.
At present the CEG consists of eleven members (Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, UK, USA, European Union, and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - IIASA) and three observers (Japan, Nordic Environmental Finance Corporation - NEFCO and International Science and Technology Center - ISTC).
Table shows the titles of Russian projects submitted and considered by CEG as of 06 February 1997.
Table
List of Cooperation Projects (confirmed) as for 06 February 1997
| No |
ID |
Project Title |
Cooperating Countries/ Organizations |
| 80 |
RUS 01 |
Fabrication and commissioning of special train cars of TK-VG-18 type for transportation of containers with spent fuel from decommissioned nuclear submarines |
Norway, Russia |
| 81 |
RUS 02 |
Construction and commissioning of an interim storage facility for spent fuel of nuclear submarines at the "MAYAK" |
Norway (?), Russia |
| 82 |
RUS 03 |
Design and construction of facilities for interim storage of spent fuel from decommissioned nuclear submarines (in the Murmansk region) |
Russia |
| 83 |
RUS 04 |
Design, construction and commissioning of a vessel for transportation of spent fuel from decommissioned submarines in the Northern region |
Norway, Russia |
| 84 |
RUS 05 |
Design, construction and commissioning of interim storage for liquid radwastes at the "Zvezdochka" plant for dismantling of nuclear submarines in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region |
Norway, Russia |
| 85 |
RUS 06 |
Fabrication and commissioning of a mobile facility(s?) for concentration of liquid radwaste from the Northern Navy |
Norway, Russia |
| 86 |
RUS 07 |
Design, construction and commissioning of an interim storage of solid radwaste at the "Nerpa" plant for dismantling of nuclear submarines (Murmansk Region) |
Norway, Russia |
| 87 |
RUS 08 |
Creation of a prototype radwaste disposal facility at the Basmachni Peninsula at the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago |
Russia |
| 88 |
RUS 09 |
Remediation of the floating base spent fuel storage vessel "Lepse" |
Norway, USA, France, EC (TACIS), Russia |
| 89 |
RUS 10 |
Construction of two floating techical facilities for unloading spent fuel from decommissioned submarines |
Russia |
| 90 |
RUS 11 |
Construction of an industrial liquid r/a waste treatment facilities in the Northern region (Severodvinsk, "Zvezdochka", Arkhangelsk Region and Snezhnogorsk, "Nerpa", Murmansk Region) |
Russia |
| 91 |
RUS 12 |
Reconstruction of solid radwaste storages at the Specialized Enterprise "Radon" in Murmansk |
Russia |
| 92 |
RUS 13 |
Creation of a complex of facilities for treatment of solid radwaste from the nuclear fleet (in Murmansk) |
Russia |
| 93 |
RUS 14 |
Creation of a North-West Radwaste Management Centre on the basis of the Leningrad Specialised Enterprise "Radon" |
EC (TACIS-94 R4.05-Feasibility study), Russia |
| 94 |
RUS 15 |
Establishment of a Training-Methodological Centre of radioactive waste management |
Russia |
| 95 |
RUS 16 |
Development of a conception and structure of a normative system regulating safety in radwaste and spent fuel management |
Russia |
| 96 |
RUS 17 |
Development of a sophisticated computer based data system for evaluation of the radiation legacy of the former USSR and setting priorities on remediation and prevention policy |
EU/ISTC (BNFL, SGN, JRC, IIASA), Russia (Russian Academy of Sciences, RRC "Kurchatov Institute") |
| 97 |
RUS 18 |
Development of a unified database on radiological situation in the Murmansk Region |
USA, Finland (?), Russia |
| 98 |
RUS 19 |
Development and implementation of radiological monitoring programme of the flood-lands of the Enisei River in the region of influence of the Mining and Chemical Combine |
Russia |
| 99 |
RUS 20 |
Assessment of radiation characteristics of spent nuclear fuel in the unloaded reactor cores of decommissioned submarines |
Russia |