Most experts worldwide agree that radioactive waste disposal in engineered facilities, or repositories, located in appropriate formations deep underground, provide a suitable waste management option ...

In the deep disposal of radioactive waste, the presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that the waste will be isolated and contained to protect human h...

Repositories for the disposal of radioactive waste generally rely on a multi-barrier system to isolate the waste from the biosphere. This multi-barrier system typically comprises the natural geologic...

A joint NEA-EC workshop entitled “Engineered Barrier Systems (EBS) in the Context of the Entire Safety Case” was organised in Oxford on 25-27 September 2002 and hosted by United Kingdom Nirex Limited...

The presence of several barriers serving complementary safety functions enhances confidence that radioactive waste placed in deep geological repositories will be adequately isolated and contained to ...

The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is co-sponsoring a project with the European Commission to develop a greater understanding of how to achieve the ne...

A joint NEA-EC workshop entitled “Engineered Barrier Systems: Design Requirements and Constraints” was organised in Turku, Finland on 26-29 August 2003 and hosted by Posiva Oy. The main objectives of...

The European Commission (EC) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) have, over the past several years, sponsored a project on the engineered barrier system (EBS) used in geological disposal of long...

Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) brochure au sujet des barrières ouvragées et stockage en formation géologique.

Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) flyer on engineered barriers and geological disposal.

The Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) conducted this workshop under the joint auspices of the EC and the NEA, at Keble College, Oxford on 25-27 September...

The design and implementation activities of the Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) focus on how to achieve safety in practice.

This document contains the preliminary programme and registration details of the NEA's Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) workshop to be held in Las Vegas, USA on 14-17 September 2004.

This document contains the final programme and registration details of the EBS Workshop on Integration of Engineered Barrier Systems in the Safety Case: The Role of Modelling. The workshop is to be h...

This document contains the provisional programme and registation details for the EBS Workshop on the Integration of Engineered Barrier Systems in the Safety Case: The Role of Modelling. The workshop ...