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Title

  • Main Title Site Selection and Geological Research Connected with High Level Waste Disposal Programme in the Czech Republic

Creator

  • Author: Tomas, J.
    Creator Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: WM Symposia, Inc.
    Place of Publication: Tucson, Arizona
  • Name: Ministry of the Environment (CZ)
    Place of Publication: United States

Date

  • Creation: 2003-02-25

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Attempts to solve the problem of high-level waste disposal including the spent fuel from nuclear power plants have been made in the Czech Republic for over the 10 years. Already in 1991 the Ministry of Environment entitled The Czech Geological Survey to deal with the siting of the locality for HLW disposal and the project No. 3308 ''The geological research of the safe disposal of high level waste'' had started. Within this project a sub-project ''A selection of perspective HLW disposal sites in the Bohemian Massif'' has been elaborated and 27 prospective areas were identified in the Czech Republic. This selection has been later narrowed to 8 areas which are recently studied in more detail. As a parallel research activity with siting a granitic body Melechov Massif in Central Moldanubian Pluton has been chosen as a test site and the 1st stage of research i.e. evaluation and study of its geological, hydrogeological, geophysical, tectonic and structural properties has been already completed. The Melechov Massif was selected as a test site after the recommendation of WATRP (Waste Management Assessment and Technical Review Programme) mission of IAEA (1993) because it represents an area analogous with the host geological environment for the future HLW and spent fuel disposal in the Czech Republic, i.e. variscan granitoids. It is necessary to say that this site would not be in a locality where the deep repository will be built, although it is a site suitable for oriented research for the sampling and collection of descriptive data using up to date and advanced scientific methods. The Czech Republic HLW and spent fuel disposal programme is now based on The Concept of Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management (''Concept'' hereinafter) which has been prepared in compliance with energy policy approved by Government Decree No. 50 of 12th January 2000 and approved by the Government in May 2002. Preparation of the Concept was required, amongst other reasons in connection with preparations for the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union and in connection with the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management adopted under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was signed by the Czech Republic in 1997. According to the approved Concept it is expected that a deep geological repository in the Czech Republic will be built in granitic rocks.
  • Physical Description: 10 pages

Subject

  • Keyword: Radioactive Waste Management
  • Keyword: Iaea
  • Keyword: Waste Management
  • STI Subject Categories: 21 Specific Nuclear Reactors And Associated Plants
  • Keyword: Compliance
  • Keyword: Radioactive Wastes
  • Keyword: Site Selection
  • Keyword: Nuclear Power Plants
  • STI Subject Categories: 29 Energy Planning, Policy And Economy
  • STI Subject Categories: 11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials
  • Keyword: Nuclear Fuels
  • Keyword: Tectonics
  • Keyword: Safety
  • Keyword: Sampling
  • STI Subject Categories: 12 Management Of Radioactive Wastes, And Non-Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Facilities
  • Keyword: Geologic Surveys
  • Keyword: Energy Policy
  • Keyword: Spent Fuels
  • Keyword: Waste Disposal

Source

  • Conference: Waste Management 2003 Symposium, Tucson, AZ (US), 02/23/2003--02/27/2003

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 826260
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc779972
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