31st Training course on Radioactive Waste Management

The 31st course on radioactive waste management, organized by CIEMAT is now open for registrations. The course provides current knowledge of the radioactive waste management, and the Spanish radioactive waste plan. For more detailed information, click here.

CONTENT:
– Generation, characterization and classification of radioactive waste.
– Radioactive waste in Nuclear Power Plants and Radioactive facilities.
– IAEA Fundamental Safety Principles.
– Criteria and objectives of radiological protection.
– Characterization of radioactive waste.
– Basic management and storage criteria.
– Selection, characterization and evaluation of sites.
– Low and medium level waste storage.
– Temporary and definitive storage of waste of high activity.
– Pollutant’s dispersion in geological environment and in the biosphere.
– Safety of nuclear facilities decommissioning.
– Legal framework and quality guarantee.
– The Spanish Radioactive Waste Company. The National Radioactive Waste Plan.
– Institutional aspects and international situation.
– Social participation in decision-making for the management of radioactive waste.

The course includes two technical visits: “El Cabril” a waste storage facility (Córdoba) and to the dismantling of the “José Cabrera” Nuclear Power Plant (Guadalajara).

OBJECTIVE:
Radioactive waste toxicity requires a safety management in conditions which ensure the minimum risk to people and the environment, well within the established limits. The 31st course on radioactive waste management provides current knowledge of the radioactive waste management, and the Spanish radioactive waste plan. This thirty-first course updates the knowledge of radioactive waste management, through the experience and knowledge of professionals of the sector; It analyzes current problems, foreseeable ones and their solutions. Its duration is 54 hours.