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Key Information File for

Radioactive Waste Repositories

Pierre-Henri de La CodreOECD/NEA

IAEA Third International Conference on

Nuclear Knowledge Management7-11 November 2016

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The NEA: A Forum for Co-operation for the

Advanced Countries in the World

• Founded in 1958

• 31 member countries

• 7 standing technical committees

• 75 working parties and expert groups

• 21 international joint projects

• 122 employees

Missions: • To assist its member countries in maintaining

and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for a safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

• To provide authoritative assessments and to forge common understandings on key issues, as input to government decisions on nuclear energy policy, and to broader OECD policy analyses in areas such as energy and sustainable development.

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-RF

7 Committees

IGSC WPDD CPD

ABG

EGPMRW

RK&M

EGIRM

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Records, Knowledge and Memory

across generations

Purpose: …The Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) initiative of

the NEA RWMC assembles an international group of RWM specialists

to reflect on how best we can enable future members of society to make

their own informed decisions regarding a radioactive waste repository

after it is closure, decades, centuries and millennia from now…

Phase-I: 2011-2014

Phase-II: 2014-2018Current membership: 21 organisations from 14

countries:ONDRAF/NIRAS (Belgium), SCK (Belgium), NWMO (Canada), SURAO

(Czech Republic), STUK (Finland), ANDRA (France), BfS (Germany), GRS

(Germany), KIT (Germany), PURAM (Hungary), JAEA (Japan), RWMC

(Japan), ROSATOM(Russia), ENRESA (Spain), SKB (Sweden), Riksarkivet

(Sweden), SSM (Sweden), NAGRA (Switzerland), SFOE (Switzerland),

NDA-RWM (UK), USDOE (USA)

Observers:

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Radioactive waste management &

Records Preservation

DGR are constructed to be there permanently. Record preservation is crucial: Ensure future generations to be aware of its contents / hazards, i.e., able to make

informed decisions; Knowledge of hazard will deter inadvertent human intrusion. To increase permanence, a systematic approach using multiple, complementary

components should be used to provide redundancy

Aube surface repository Forsmark near-surface repository Deep geological repository

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RK&M

Several areas of work:

• Prevent repository from Human intrusion

– Marking Strategy

• Keep the Society aware of the Repository

– Cultural Heritage

– International Mechanisms

– Archiving

• Knowledge Management

– Key Information File (KIF)

– Set of Essential Records (SER)

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Hierarchical System

DETAILED RECORDS > 10 000 documents

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Repository site and/or Operator site,Archive and/or data

base

National, regional or specialized Archive in

printed and/or electronic form

RECORDS SELECTED FOR STORAGE in

accordance with national or local regulations and legislation

Set of Essential Records (SER)A set of of most important records most important records to be kept about the repository history, construction, properties, etc.

National, regional or specialized Archive in

printed and/or electronic form

Key Information File (KIF)

A single document providing a summary of the

existence, location and content of an engineered

facility for the permanent disposal of radioactive

wastes

Many copies distributed widely

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Inform by

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KIF Principles (1/2)

1. The KIF should provide relevant information to future

generations, to help protect passive performance of the disposal

site and to enable any necessary decision making.

2. The KIF should identify hazards presented by waste,

describe reduction in hazard with time, and describe engineered

and natural barriers that prevent human contact with radioactive

wastes.

3. The KIF should be written, so far as possible, in a succinct

and non-technical manner. Where necessary, technical context

should be provided to prevent ambiguous interpretations of

information.

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4. Copies of the KIF should be preserved in formats and locations

that are easily located and viewable, so that it is readily available to all

potentially interested parties.

5. The KIF should point to planned preservation of more detailed

information about the disposal facility, its content and associated

safety cases, noting that additional information is unlikely to have

been preserved with the same rigour.

6. The KIF should not be over 40 pages.

KIF Principles (2/2)

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The KIF Table of Content

Section Title and Contents

0. Purpose and contents of this document (to be

provided in several languages)

1. Disposal Context

2. Facility Location

3. Container and Facility Design

4. Disposal Inventory

5. Safety Case

6. Disposal Records

7. List of similar repositories in the world (to be provided

in several languages)

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Testing the KIF

• The KIF is currently being tested in three different cases

– The closed French “Centre de stockage de la Manche” (surface

repository)

– The existing US Waste Isolation Pilot Plant WIPP (geological)

– The planned Swedish Spent Fuel Repository (geological)

• Feedback is wanted on:

– What should be the core contents of the KIF, is anything of

importance missing?

– Who should be responsible for making the KIF?

– Who should take care of/look after and use the KIF?

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Next Steps

• Integration of the three tests

– Feedbacks mentioned in the previous slide

– Feedback on the best way to fill in the KIF

• Issue a final report by April 2017

• Same work for the SER

– Draft list of documents

– Testing

– Final report

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Thank you!

More information on:

https://www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/rkm/

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Slide titleSection Title and Contents

0. Purpose and contents of this document (to be provided in several

languages)

1. Disposal Context:

Nature of radioactivity / radioactive waste

How this waste was produced

Why the waste needed geological disposal

Key dates

Regulatory provisions in force

2. Facility Location:

Repository coordinates (latitude / longitude / depth)

Geological setting

Baseline ‘hydro-geo-chemical’ parameters at time of

closure

3. Container and Facility Design:

Container types used

Engineered features

Access and closure

Provisions for site monitoring (scope and timescale)

4. Disposal Inventory:

Radionuclides

Toxic components

Hazard evolution profile, if undisturbed

How to regenerate information

5. Safety Case:

Basis for safety case (isolation and containment)

Anticipated radiological impacts (natural evolution)

Impact of human disturbance (warning not to intrude)

6. Disposal Records:

Updating schedule for the KIF

Distribution of KIF

Location and distribution of detailed records

7. List of similar repositories in the world (to be provided in several

languages):

Coordinates of disposal facilities

Coordinates of records retention