EURADWASTE '22, the 10th European Commission (EC) conference on the management of radioactive waste and geological disposal was held under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) in Lyon, on 31 May - 3 June 2022. It was co-organised together with the CEA...

FISA 2022, the 10th European Commission (EC) conference on Euratom Research and Training in Safety of Reactor Systems was held under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) in Lyon, on 31 May - 3 June 2022. It was co-organised together with the CEA and...

EURADWASTE '22, the 10th European Commission (EC) conference on the management of radioactive waste and geological disposal was held under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) in Lyon, on 31 May - 3 June 2022. It was co-organised together with the CEA...

FISA 2022, the 10th European Commission (EC) conference on Euratom Research and Training in Safety of Reactor Systems was held under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) in Lyon, on 31 May - 3 June 2022. It was co-organised together with the CEA and...

Chapter three of Title II of the Euratom Treaty, Article 35 states: 'Each Member State shall establish the facilities necessary to carry out continuous monitoring of the level of radioactivity in the air, water and soil and to ensure compliance with the basic standards'. This study focuses on...

This report provides an overview of the legal framework and regulation for the decommissioning of NPPs in Switzerland, as well as give an indication on current cost estimates and their accuracy. Additionally, it shows the current progress of the decommissioning process.

This report provides an overview of the legal framework and regulation for the decommissioning of NPPs in Sweden, as well as give an indication on current cost estimates and their accuracy. Additionally, it shows the current progress of the decommissioning process.

This report provides an overview of the legal framework and regulation for the decommissioning of NPPs in the U.S., as well as give an indication on current cost estimates and their accuracy. Additionally, it shows the current progress of the decommissioning process.

In this survey paper, we bring together the insights from six country case studies on decommissioning commercial nuclear power plants (NPPs). Nuclear decommissioning has often been overlooked in past literature but will gain relevance in future research as more and more NPPs reach the ends of...

This paper reviews the case of nuclear energy. Currently, the worldworld is facing one of the greatest energy crises due to the Russo-Ukrainian war. This conflict has lead to limited sources of gas, causing a dramatic decrease in energy supply, leading to emerging energy crisis risks. This is...

There are billions of dollars at stake in the US nuclear power plant decommissioning market. Approximately 100 nuclear power plants are still operating but will come offline and need to be decommissioned over the next few decades. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) mandates that the...

We evaluate a political market mechanism for allocating nuclear waste repositories to local communities. This mechanism consists of a local referendum and economic incentives offered to the local population. Using a randomized choice experiment, we find that the political market mechanism...

There are billions of dollars at stake in the US nuclear power plant decommissioning market. Approximately 100 nuclear power plants are still operating but will come offline and need to be decommissioned over the next few decades. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) mandates that the...

The 10th Edition of the Euratom research and training conference on fission safety of reactor systems (FISA 2022) will be organised in parallel to the 10th Edition of the Euratom research and training conference on radioactive waste management (EURADWASTE '22) by the CEA and the European...

Since 1999, the EURADWASTE conference has been an important event to present the challenges, the outcome and the perspectives of the Euratom Research and Training Programme on Radioactive Waste Management and to provide a platform to the key players in RWM. This year's 10th edition jointly...

Since 1999, the EURADWASTE conference has been an important event to present the challenges, the outcome and the perspectives of the Euratom Research and Training Programme on Radioactive Waste Management and to provide a platform to the key players in RWM. This year's 10th edition jointly...

The CEA and the European Commission invite all relevant stakeholders to participate to the 10th Edition of Euratom research and training conferences on fission safety of reactor systems (FISA 2022) and radioactive waste management (EURADWASTE '22). These events are organised under the scope of...

The CEA and the European Commission invite all relevant stakeholders to participate to the 10th Edition of Euratom research and training conferences on fission safety of reactor systems (FISA 2022) and radioactive waste management (EURADWASTE '22). These events are organised under the scope of...

The 10th Edition of the Euratom research and training conference on fission safety of reactor systems (FISA 2022) will be organised in parallel to the 10th Edition of the Euratom research and training conference on radioactive waste management (EURADWASTE '22) by the CEA and the European...

This article examines how safety assessment experts working on Finland’s nuclear waste repository project at Olkiluoto summoned, conjured, or channeled memories of Seppo — a deceased colleague whose ‘specter,’ as informants put it, still ‘haunts’ their scientific community. For some,...

The United States has vast offshore wind resources—nearly double the total electricity consumption of the country—ideally located in close proximity to the largest population centers. This abundance has remained stubbornly untapped for over a decade, without a single commercial scale wind...

With the closure of the final six nuclear power plants, the commercial use of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector exported 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or about four percent of...

According to the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the sector of energy supply caused more than a fourth of the global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in 2004 . In a business-as-usual scenario CO2 emissions from the energy sector are estimated to...

This paper analyses socially optimal nuclear plant operation and nuclear waste management. Two waiting rules are derived: the first characterizes the optimal continuation of electricity production, and the second gives the optimal nuclear waste disposal date. Both rules balance the cost and...

Due to its technical complexity, the co-production of electricity generation and nuclear weapons, and its high fixed costs, nuclear power is a particularly complex commodity, which poses unusual challenges for state economic (or industrial, defense, innovation etc.) policy. As in other sectors,...

With Germany’s nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities...

This study provides an independent, outside-in estimate of the cost and schedule risks of nuclear waste storage projects. Nuclear waste storage is here defined as special facilities for the wet and dry storage and disposal of high-level (HILW) and low and intermediate-level nuclear waste (LILW)....

With Germany's nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities remaining...

The present study assesses the robustness of the financing plans for the Kozloduy, Ignalina and Bohunice decommissioning programmes, considering the economic-financial-budgetary situation in each concerned Member State, and the relevance and feasibility of the corresponding decommissioning...

In the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, a prerequisite for the accession of Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia to the European Union was a commitment to prematurely close and subsequently dismantle their early Soviet-designed reactors. Three nuclear power plants with a total of eight reactors...

What happened, in the years leading up to Valentine's Day 2014, that made a canister of nuclear waste burst open and spew out fire underground at a US facility for the long-term disposal of radioactive military waste? According to one widely publicized scenario, a simple run-of-the-mill typo led...

The transition from nuclear power generation to decommissioning carries a number of safety challenges tied to human and organisational factors. This report discusses these challenges and brings together the experiences of members of the NEA Working Group on Human and Organisational Factors. It...

Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, many countries began funding research and development on nuclear fuel designs with enhanced accident tolerance (ATFs). ATFs have improved designs, materials and performance features compared with those of the current generation...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) Annotated Glossary is a review of concepts central to societal decision making about radioactive waste management. It records the evolution in understanding that has taken place in the group as the FSC has worked with...

The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) acts as a centre for informed exchange of knowledge and experience regarding stakeholder interaction and public participation in radioactive waste management. It promotes an open discussion among members and stakeholders,...