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Those workshop proceedings highlight the major quantity of labor entire during the last decade in providing obvious, proportionate legislation for geological disposal, and identify important transformations among nationwide rules whether those aren't in contradiction with overseas guidance. They additionally underline the significance of R&D conducted on behalf of the regulator. as well as the contributed papers, those lawsuits hint the various discussions that shaped an essential component of the workshop. They represent an enormous and distinctive documentary foundation for researchers and radioactive waste administration specialists. Themes addressed contain tasks to destiny generations, timescales for rules, stepwise selection making, roles of optimisation and most sensible to be had options (BAT), a number of traces of reasoning, protection and function symptoms, reputation of uncertainties and the significance of stakeholder interactions.

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International guidance is rather difficult to interpret, understand and apply. The information and guidance in IAEA and ICRP documents is not self-contained and a simple reading is clearly not sufficient in order to get the messages. Underlying argumentation is often necessary for understanding but it is not always available or clearly communicated. Inconsistencies are also apparent, likely due to the fact that consensus international documents must be compatible with a variety of approaches. Additional complications arise from the need to translate guidance originally written in English into other languages and to transfer international guidance into national laws compatible with different national cultures.

Finally, the link between the various versions of documents issued by the different international organisations is not very clear, especially to “non-insiders”. It is important that stakeholders understand the bases for regulatory judgements. One important issue is that it is very difficult for all stakeholders to understand the bases on which the regulatory authority will judge safety over the different timescales, including the long term. ), system optimisation and duties to future generations as a 43 function of time.

In Sweden, in situations where uncertainties are large, the application of BAT is prioritised over optimisation. In Japan, in the case of intermediate depth disposal a number of different constraints or guide values are applied depending on the relative likelihood of the scenarios. e. simple compliance with a numerical dose or risk criterion is not considered sufficient. However, such optimisation requirements are not always quantitative or rigorous. The German response indicated that other factors such as long-term geological stability and consequences of human intrusion are taken into account during the course of optimisation.

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