Beneficiary Organizations Details
Radioactive Waste Repository Agency of Czech Republic (RAWRA): www.rawra.cz.
Project Aims

• to eliminate burden from the past practice and ensure a full compliance of historical waste packages disposal with the present Czech regulatory requirements and international recommendations on safe disposal of radioactive waste;
• to improve overall long term safety of the Richard repository;
• to establish a program on monitoring and evaluation of a long term behavior of the backfilling material waste packages as an input for for verification and validation of data necessary for the repository safety assessment.

Project Results

• “Historical” waste packages sealed in disposal chambers;
• Established program on long term monitoring of behavior of backfilled material in contact with host rock and waste packages;
• Validated data for safety assessments and for final closure costs calculation;
• Enlarged disposal capacity;
• Enhanced overall safety of the repository;
• Improved operational and inspection conditions.

The budget for this project is: 1 000 000 Euro.
Further Project Results
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