WENRA’s Working Group on Waste & Decommissioning (WGWD) was established in 2002 and addresses the regulatory aspects relating to radioactive waste, spent fuel and decommissioning matters. Unlike the regulatory situation with respect to the operation of nuclear reactors, the management of radioactive waste usually involves several licence holders, sites and facilities at different steps of the waste management process.
WGWD has developed four sets of Safety Reference Levels (SRLs) that reflect expected practices in four thematic areas agreed by the regulatory authorities to be implemented in the WENRA member states. The four thematic areas are:
- Decommissioning, January 2024
- Waste and Spent Fuel Storage, January 2024
- Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities, December 2014
- Radioactive Waste Treatment and Conditioning Safety, April 2018
Across all four WGWD thematic areas there are 302 separate SRLs, for which 240 relate to the processing, storage and disposal of radioactive waste and 62 relate to decommissioning. WGWD’s SRLs are applicable to a wide range of facilities, regardless of the main purpose of the facility in question. Some of them address specific facilities, as described in the disposal report; others are primarily activity-oriented, as mentioned in the processing report.
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