Experience in Applying the International Requirements for the Validation of Long-Time Safety of Radwaste Disposal Sites: Problems and Lessons

Abstract

For a long time, the domestic system regulating the safety of the use of atomic energy was oriented toward its own structure of the relevant documents. The orientation on synchronization and harmonization of the requirements, characteristic for the last 30 years, recently started to emphasize safety at the final stages of the life cycle. In the present article, on the basis of the IAEA documents as well as the recommendations of the IAEA standards, the main anticipated problems of validating the long-time safety of disposal sites for radwastes are fixed. The main avenues are shown for the control and regulation agencies as well as the scientific-technical community for bringing the practice of validation of long-time safety into conformance with international principles and requirements of the domestic legislation.