Disposal sites of Belgian radioactive waste in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Facility:
Description
Disposal part of the "SEA_DUMP" facility
sea dumping (deep sea disposal) Type
Depth (m) 65-5200
unknown (site not selected) Host medium
Disused/spent, sealed radioactiv e sources (SRS). No No
The following shows disposal status for waste classes, and SRS
Waste Class Actual Planned Waste Class Actual Planned
Category A Yes No Category B No No
Category C No No Category R No No
Phase Estimate Start Year End Year
operation Yes 1960 1982
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Reporting Year: 2005 Inventory Reporting Date: December 2005 Waste Matrix: NIRAS
Full Name: Disposal sites of Belgian radioactive waste in the North Atlantic Ocean
Waste Inventory Est=distribution is an estimate, Proc.=Is the waste processed (Yes/No)? RO=Reactor Operations, FF/FE=Fuel Fabrication/Fuel Enrichment, RP=Reprocessing, NA=Nuclear Applications,DF=Defence, DC/RE=Decommissioning/Remediation, ND=Not Determined
Disposal Yes 15765 50 0 0 50 0 0
Category A 0 No
Distribution in %
RO FF
FE
RP NA DF DC
RE
Class Location Proc. Volume
(m3) ND Est
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Reporting Year: 2005 Interior
Ministry of the Interior Name
Division
Ministry of the Interior Full Name
Brussels City or Town
State
State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development Name
Division
State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development Full Name
Brussels City or Town
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Reporting Year: 2005 08081980
Name
Law of 8th August, 1980, outlining the organisation, funding and core business of ONDRAF/NIRAS.
Title or Name
08081980 Reference Number
1980-08-08
Law of 11th January, 1991, replacing the Law of 8th August 1980, outlining the organisation, funding and core business of ONDRAF/NIRAS.
Title or Name
11011991 Reference Number
1991-01-11
Royal Decree of 16th Octobre, 1991 modifying the Law of 11th January 1990, outlining the organisation, funding and core business of
ONDRAF/NIRAS.
Title or Name
16011991 Reference Number
1991-10-16
Law of 12th December 1997, article 9: "Inventory of Nuclear Liaibilities", outlining the mission of ONDRAF/NIRAS to develop and maintain an inventory of nuclear liabilities.
Title or Name
12121997 Reference Number
1997-12-12
Law of 30th December 2001, articles 87 up to 94, regarding the funding of Title or Name
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Reporting Year: 2005 15042003
Name
Law regarding the build up of financial provisions for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants and the management of nuclear fuel, irradiated in these nuclear power plants.
Title or Name
15042003 Reference Number
2003-04-15 Date Promulgated
or Proclaimed
Law
18112002 Name
Law of 18th November 2002, regarding the qualification of radiological characterisation methods, processing methods and primary packages by ONDRAF/NIRAS.
Title or Name
18112002 Reference Number
2002-11-18 Date Promulgated
or Proclaimed
Law
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Reporting Year: 2005 1922
Start Year or Reference Year:
Umicore opens a refinery in Sint-Jozef-Olen, Belgium. For years, the factory is the world's largest producer of radium.
Description of Milestone
1986 End Year
1952 Start Year or Reference Year:
The Research Centre for Nuclear Energy Application is founded, later renamed the Nuclear
Research Centre. The Nuclear Research Centre's site in Mol houses two research reactors and has a staff of 700.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1959 Start Year or Reference Year:
Eurochemic's experimental spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is commissioned in Dessel, Belgium.
Description of Milestone
1978 End Year
1963 Start Year or Reference Year:
The PWR BR3 (Belgian Research 3) commences operations. It is operated by the Nuclear Research Centre on its Mol-site. The BR3 is the first operational PWR in Western Europe. The operational era of the BR3 ends in 1987. It is the first PWR that is to be decommissioned in Western Europe.
Description of Milestone
1987 End Year
1966 Start Year or Reference Year:
The Belgian government gives the go-ahead for the construction of the first commercial nuclear power plants at Doel and Tihange.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1975 Start Year or Reference Year:
The PWR's Doel 1 (392,5 MW), Doel 2 (392,5 MW) and Tihange 1 (870 MW) commence operations.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1975 Start Year or Reference Year:
The first commercial nuclear power plants are commissioned in Doel and Tihange. There are now seven reactors in operation, all of the PWR-type.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1978 Start Year or Reference Year:
Since 1978 great progress has been made in research on deep disposal of radioactive waste, thanks to the HADES underground laboratory at Mol.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1980
Start Year or Reference Year: End Year
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Reporting Year: 2005 1985
Start Year or Reference Year:
The PWR's Doel 4 (980 MW) and Tihange 3 (980 MW) commence operations. They represent the final units of the Belgian fleet of nuclear power plants.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1986 Start Year or Reference Year:
Building 150, the first Belgian purpose-designed storage facility for category A-waste, is put into operation on the Belgoprocess-site.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1986 Start Year or Reference Year:
Since 1986, ONDRAF/NIRAS has used its subsidiary Belgoprocess N.V. in Mol-Dessel for processing and interim storage of radioactive waste and decommissioning of nuclear facilities.
Description of Milestone
End Year
1994 Start Year or Reference Year:
CILVA, a solid and liquid low level waste processing plant, is commissioned on the Belgoprocess site.
Description of Milestone
End Year
2000 Start Year or Reference Year:
The first transport of vitrified waste, arising from the abroad reprocessing of Belgian spent fuel, arrives at the Belgoprocess site in Mol-Dessel and is stored in building 136, a purpose-designed facility for the storage of category B- and category C-waste.
Description of Milestone
End Year
2001 Start Year or Reference Year:
EIG EURIDICE is the joint venture set up by ONDRAF/NIRAS and the Nuclear Research Centre to implement the PRACLAY programme. PRACLAY is a demonstration programme designed to prove the technical feasability of disposing of category B- and category C-waste in deep clay layers.
Description of Milestone
End Year
2002 Start Year or Reference Year:
Building 156, a purpose-designed facility for the dry storage of irradiated fuel elements used by the PWR BR3, is put into operation on the Belgoprocess-site in Dessel..
Description of Milestone
End Year
2006 Start Year or Reference Year:
On 23rd June 2006, the Belgian Government approves of surface disposal as the final solution for Belgium's low and intermediate level short-lived waste.
Description of Milestone
End Year
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Reporting Year: 2005 National Systems
Policy ( Yes;Partially;No )
Yes Has your Country implemented a national policy for radioactive waste
management?
1
Strategies ( Yes;Partially;No ) Yes Has your country developed strategies to implement a national policy?
2
Requirements ( Yes;Partially;No ) Insert each of the following phrases into the question. "Has your country... ...according to IAEA Safety Series No. 111-S-1". For example, "Has your country identified the parties involved in the different steps of radioactive waste management according to IAEA Safety Series No. 111-S-1?
Yes identified the parties involved in the different steps of radioactive waste
management 4
Yes specified a rational set of safety, radiological and environmental
protection objectives 5
Yes implemented a mechanism to identify existing and anticipated
radioactive wastes 6
Yes implemented controls over radioactive waste generation
7
Yes identified available methods and facilities to process, store and dispose
of radioactive waste on an appropriate time-scale 8
Yes taken into account interdependencies among all steps in radioactive
waste generation and management 9
Yes implemented appropriate research and development to support the
operational and regulatory needs 10
Yes implemented a funding structure and the allocation of resources that
are essential for radioactive waste management 11
Yes implemented formal mechanisms for disseminating information to the
public and for public consultation 12
Responsibilities ( Complete;Incomplete ) Indicate whether or not the following responsibilities have been defined in your country according to IAEA Safety Series No. 111-S-1.
Member State Responsibility
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of National Systems Reporting Year: 2005 Incomplete identify an acceptable destination for the radioactive waste
24
Complete comply with legal requirements
101
Activities ( Yes;Partially;No ) To indicate the status for implementing the responsibility to "manage radioactive waste safely" in your country, please answer the question "Does your country..." by inserting the following phrases.
For example, "Does your country perform safety and environmental impact assessments?
Yes perform safety and environmental impact assessments for radioactive
waste management facilities 30
Yes ensure adequate radiation protection for workers, the general public
and the environment 31
Yes ensure suitable staff, equipment, facilities, training and operating
procedures are available to perform the safe radioactive waste management steps
32
Yes establish and implement a quality assurance programme for the
radioactive waste generated or its processing, storage and disposal 33
Yes establish and keep records of appropriate information regarding the
generation, processing, storage and disposal of radioactive waste, including an inventory of radioactive waste
34
Yes provide surveillance and control of activities involving radioactive
waste as required by the regulatory body 35
Yes collect, analyze and, as appropriate, share operational experience to
ensure continued safety improvements in radioactive waste management
36
Yes conduct or otherwise ensure appropriate research and development to
support operational needs in radioactive waste management 37
Clearance ( Yes;No )
Yes Does your country have "clearly defined clearance levels based on
radiological criteria, with policy statements that material below those levels can be recycled or disposed of with non-radioactive wastes"?
115
Yes Has your country ever used a "case-by-case” approach to clearing
radioactive wastes (excluding spent/disused sealed radioactive sources)?
116
Yes Has your country ever used clearance lev els to dispose of, reuse or
recycle radioactive waste as radioactive waste or as a non-radioactive resource (excluding spent/disused sealed non-radioactive sources)?
117
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Disposal Facilities Reporting Year: 2005 Yes - All Performance Assessment (PA)
42
Yes - All Quality Assurance (QA)
43
Yes - All Safety Assessment (SA)
44
Yes - All If Quality Assurance is part of your Country's current, waste disposal
facility licensing policy, does the QA Program conform to international standards (such as the ISO9000 series)?
46
Operation ( Yes - All;Yes - Some;No ) Yes - Some Does your Country have formal, documented waste acceptance criteria
for its operating or proposed disposal facilities?
47
Post-Closure ( Yes;No )
No Does your Country have any written policies to address the
maintenance of records that describe the design, location and inventory of waste disposal facilities?
48
No Does your Country have any written policies to address active
institutional controls or passive institutional controls, such as monitoring or access restrictions?
50
Processing/Storage
Policies/Procedures ( Yes;No )
Does your country have written policies or written procedures for the following:
Yes waste sorting/segregation
60 processing and/or storing and/or disposing of nuclear fuel cycle waste
separately from non-nuclear fuel cycle waste (also known as nuclear applications waste)
63
No Does your country have any legislation, regulation, or policy that waste
processing must take place prior to storage (see following note) 65
NOTE: The statement above implies wastes that require processing should not be placed into storage facilities (except for short-term, interim storage awaiting processing) in an unprocessed state for significant periods, where significant is defined by the regulatory body.
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Processing/Storage Reporting Year: 2005 Yes
Will some or all of the product(s) of processing/reprocessing be returned to your country?
109
Yes Currently, are any of your country’s wastes (processed or unprocessed,
including the products of reprocessing) or spent fuel being stored in another country?
110
Yes Has your country accepted any wastes or spent fuel from another
country for processing (reprocessing for fuel)?
111
Yes Currently, are there any wastes (processed or unprocessed, including
the products of reprocessing) or spent fuel from another country being stored in your country?
112
Yes Will some or all of the the product(s) of processing/reprocessing be
returned to the country of origin?
113
Yes Does the inventory you reported to the NEWMDB for your country
include radioactive wastes that originated in another country or that were generated as a result of processing/reprocessing radioactive waste/spent fuel that orginated in another country?
114
Spent SRS
Registration ( Yes;No )
Please indicate the types of registries used in your country for sealed radioactive sources (SRS) (please check all that apply)
No Is there a national level registry?
71
Are there regional-level registries (one or more)? No 74
No Are there local-level registries (one or more)?
77
Procedures ( Yes;No )
No Does your Country have documented procedures in place to ensure
that sealed radioactive sources (SRS) are transferred to secure facilities in a timely manner after their user declares them to be spent?
78
Agreements ( Yes;No )
Does your Country have any agreements in place whereby spent sealed radioactive sources (SRS) are returned to their supplier by the user (check all options that apply)?
No Government to Government agreements
80
No Government - Supplier agreements
81
Country: Belgium, Kingdom of Spent SRS Reporting Year: 2005 No
Does your Country have plans to implement dedicated disposal facilities for spent SRS?
90
Import-Export
Radioactive Waste ( Yes;No )
Yes Does your Country have laws or Regulations restricting either the
import or export of radioactive waste (excluding spent fuel)?
91
Spent Fuel ( Yes;No )
No Does your Country have laws or Regulations restricting either the
import or export of spent fuel?
92
Liquid HLW
Storage ( Yes;No )
No Does your Country have high-level liquid wastes in storage?
93
UMMT
Responsibility ( Yes;No )
No Does your Country have any Uranium Mine and Mill Tailings sites that
do not hav e a designated authority to manage them?
97
Decommissioning
Funding ( Yes - All;Yes - Some;No ) Yes - All Does your Country require that funds should be set aside in support of
future waste management activities, such as decommissioning activities?
98
Facilities ( Yes;No )
Yes Does Your Country have any nuclear fuel cycle facilities?
106
Brazil
Reporting year: 2005
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Country: Brazil, Federative Republic of Reporting Year: 2005 Waste Class Matrix: IAEA Def. , Used
The Agency's standard matrix Description:
Usage is specified in the brazilian standard
Norma Técnica CNEN-NN-6.09 "Critérios de Aceitação para Deposição de Rejeitos Radioativos de Baixo e Médio Níveis de Radiação", approved on september 23rd 2002 Comment #383: Usage Specification
Definition of «unprocessed waste» and «processed waste»:
as-generated waste unprocessed
processed for handling
processed for storage
processed for disposal
processed
X
X X X
This country uses the NEWMDB’s definitions:
Country: Brazil, Federative Republic of Reporting Year: 2005 Reporting Group: CNEN
December 2005 Inventory Reporting Date:
IAEA Def.
Waste Matrix Used:
Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear Description:
Site Name Facility Name Facilities Defined
processing storage
Reporting Group: ETN
December 2005 Inventory Reporting Date:
IAEA Def.
Waste Matrix Used:
Eletrobrás Termonuclear S.A.
Description:
Site Name Facility Name Facilities Defined
processing Facility 1
Angra I
processing storage Facility 2
Angra II
storage Facility 3
DIRR
Country: Brazil, Federative Republic of Reporting Year: 2005 Full Name: Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear
License Holder(s) :
The following list the waste management facilities that are located at this site.
certified facility (safety assessment required) Operating organization:
Centro de Desenv olvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear Rua Prof. Mário Werneck s/nº
Belo Horizonte - MG - Brasil CEP 30123-970