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The Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (RAWRA) was established on 1st June 1997 as the result of Ministry of Industry and Trade Decision No. 107/1997 issued in pursuance of Article 26 of Act No. 18/1997 Coll., on the peaceful utilisation of nuclear energy and ionising radiation (the Atomic Act), as a state organisation responsible for the management of activities related to the disposal of radioactive waste. |
The Radioactive Waste Repository Authority's mission is to ensure the safe disposal of existing and future radioactive waste (RAW) in the Czech Republic and to guarantee the fulfilment of the requirements for the protection of both the public and the environment from the potentially adverse impacts of such waste...>>
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Transport cask for RAW |
RAWRA's responsibilities include the preparation, construction, commissioning, operation and closure of radioactive waste repositories and the monitoring of their impact on the environment...>>
- France is seeking a disposal site for low-level long-lived radioactive waste
Detailed investigations in 2009-10 in two communes of the Aube District.
With regard to the search for suitable sites to implement a disposal facility for low-level long-lived (LL-LL) radioactive waste, the French government has selected two communes where in-depth investigations will be conducted in 2009-10: Auxon and Pars-lès-Chavanges, both of which are located in the Aube District. The government has also called for a public debate to be held before the final disposal site is selected in 2011. - Sweden’s SKB Chooses Forsmark for Final Repository Site
3 Jun (NucNet): Swedish nuclear fuel and waste management company SKB has chosen Forsmark as the site for the final repository for Sweden’s spent nuclear fuel.
- SÚRAO/RAWRA completed the analysis of military areas, next in-depth research envisaged
By the end of May the Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (RAWRA) has to organize
opponency of the geologic analysis of military areas in the Czech Republic. Preliminary results
indicate that suitable geologic conditions for potential location of a deep repository of used nuclear
fuel and other radioactive substances could be found in the military areas in Boletice and Hradište.
In these two military areas SÚRAO/RAWRA intends to carry-out an in-depth research that could
approve this expectation. - ESDRED Conference
Underground Disposal Unit Design & Emplacement Processes For a Deep Geological Repository
“Operational & Safety Considerations”
16-18 June 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
Organised by the ESDRED Project and Co-Sponsored by the EC, RAWRA, Czech Technical University, ANDRA and GRS - Research & development plan
Framework plan for research and development activities - WATRP mission
WATRP REVIEW REPORT on the Czech Deep Geological Repository Development Programme - WATRP mission
Background materials for International peer review of the Czech programme of the geological repository development
All radioactive waste repositories in the Czech Republic which are in operation, i.e. the repositories Dukovany, Richard near Litomìøice and Bratrstvi in Jachymov, were put into state ownership on January 1st, 2000. The repositories, which had been operated by private operators, have been transferred under the management of the state organisation Radioactive Waste Repository Authority. RAWRA is now resposible for the safe operation of all repositories.
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The low level waste repository Dukovany |
The necessary period for isolation is for most of the low level waste 300 years, 500 years at maximum. This type of waste can be disposed in surface or near-surface repositories such as Dukovany, Richard or Bratrství. >>
There exists many promising projects how to exploit huge amount of energy comprised in spent nuclear fuel and concurrently by this to reduce the amount of high-level radioactive radioisotops.
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Geological repository |
Even the optimistic development of the new technologies always some amount of high radioactive wastes remaines from nucler power plants, from different industries and medicine which will be necessary to isolate from biosphere for many thousand years.
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Responsible countries therefore look for and investigate the most suitable geological formation on their territory and design appropriate technology for the deep geological repository.>> |
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