1. | The general objective of the JRC decommissioning and waste management programme is to pursue the decommissioning of the Commission’s nuclear installations at the JRC sites, namely JRC-Geel in Belgium, JRC-Karlsruhe in Germany, JRC-Ispra in Italy and JRC-Petten in the Netherlands, and to safely manage the spent fuel, nuclear material and radioactive waste. The general objective of the JRC decommissioning and waste management programme is complemented by the aim of enhancing the EU added value of that programme by contributing to the dissemination of knowledge on the decommissioning process (thereby generated) to all Member States. In the financing period starting as of 2021, the JRC decommissioning and waste management programme has to deliver the following:
1.1. | At all sites:
(a) | safely manage radioactive waste, nuclear material and spent fuel; |
(b) | explore and develop options for the transfer of decommissioning and waste management liabilities to the host Member State, based on the mutual bilateral agreement concluded between the Commission and the host Member State; |
(c) | develop ties and exchanges among Union stakeholders (e.g. Member States, safety authorities, and utilities and decommissioning operators); |
(d) | document explicit knowledge and make it available through multilateral knowledge transfers on decommissioning and waste management governance issues, managerial best practices, and technological challenges and decommissioning processes at both operational and organisational level, with a view to developing potential Union synergies. |
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1.2. | At the JRC-Ispra site (depending on release of the relevant authorisations by the Italian safety authorities), in accordance with national law:
(a) | retrieve, treat and safely store historical waste; |
(b) | retrieve, treat and safely store nuclear material and spent fuel; |
(c) | decommission facilities that have been shut down. |
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1.3. | At the JRC-Karlsruhe site (depending on release of the relevant authorisations by the German safety authorities), in accordance with national law:
(a) | decommission obsolete equipment; |
(b) | minimise the inventory of radioactive waste, nuclear material and spent fuel; |
(c) | decommission facilities that have been shut down and store associated radioactive waste; |
(d) | preparatory phases of the decommissioning of building parts. |
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1.4. | At the JRC-Petten site (depending on release of the relevant authorisations by the Dutch safety authorities), in accordance with national law:
(a) | minimise the inventory of radioactive waste, nuclear material and spent fuel; |
(b) | retrieve, treat and safely manage the historical radioactive waste; |
(c) | preparatory phases of the decommissioning of the high-flux reactor; |
(d) | decommission the high-flux reactor facilities and safely manage associated radioactive waste. |
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1.5. | At the JRC-Geel site (depending on release of the relevant authorisations by the Belgian safety authorities), in accordance with national law:
(a) | decommission obsolete equipment; |
(b) | minimise the inventory of radioactive waste and nuclear material; |
(c) | preparatory phases of the decommissioning of building parts. |
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Progress made in respect of this objective is to be measured by the quantity and type of safely stored or disposed-of waste, by the quantity and type of safely stored or disposed-of nuclear material and spent fuel and by the quantity and type of materials removed, as appropriate. The progress of the JRC decommissioning and waste management programme is to be generally measured by expected results, milestones, target dates, as well as the corresponding key performance indicators, including, where appropriate, earned-value-based indicators.
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