About
A step change in European collaboration towards safe RWM, covering all phases including predisposal and disposal, through the development of a robust and sustained science, technology and knowledge management programme that supports timely implementation of RWM activities and serves to foster mutual understanding and trust between Joint Programme participants.
By step-change we mean a new era via a more effective and efficient public research, development and demonstration (RD&D) funding in Europe, and a deepening of research-cooperation between Member States having different radioactive waste inventories and with programmes at different stages of development. Convinced that after five years of implementation the EURAD(-1) vision is still lively and valid, EURAD-2 builds upon EURAD(-1) and PREDIS to further implement a joint strategic programme of research & development, strategic studies and knowledge management activities at the European level, bringing together and complementing EU Member States’ programmes in order to ensure cutting edge knowledge creation and preservation in view of delivering safe, responsible and publicly acceptable solutions for the management of radioactive waste throughout all programme phases (from “cradle to grave”) across Europe now and in the future.
EURAD-2 shall support the implementation of the Waste Directive in EU Member-States, taking into account the various stages of advancement of national programmes, the differences in capabilities and inventories.
EURAD-2 gathers:
Waste Management Organisations (WMOs) represented by the IGD-TP, whose mission covers the management and disposal of radioactive waste.
Technical Safety Organisations (TSOs) represented by SITEX.Network, carrying out activities aimed at providing the technical and scientific basis for notably supporting the decisions made by a national regulatory body.
Research Entities (REs) represented by EURADScience, which are involved in RD&D in radioactive waste management.
From Members-States:
with no nuclear power programme operating, but with research, training or demonstration reactors, and/or other sources of radioactive waste;
with a nuclear programme;
with different amounts of radioactive waste to manage;
at different stages of advancement in the implementation of their national RWM programme; and
with plans for geological disposal for Spent Fuel, High-level Waste and long-lived intermediate level waste, with different host rocks and different disposal concepts and at different stages of implementation.
