The second European Programme on Radioactive Waste Management EURAD-2 has been launched in October 2024. Under the umbrella of this international cooperation in the field of RWM, more than 100 organisation from 52 countries conduct ten R&D projects, a valuable range of Knowledge Management activities and six Strategic Studies.
For the symposium the outcomes of EURAD-2 would be very valuable with respect to the scientifically excellent works and further development of the state of the art throughout all phases of a RWM programme and covering the broad scope of our EURAD-2 roadmap. All this within a unique international cooperative framework bringing together the different key actors and stakeholder in the field of RWM plus civil societal representatives. Whereas the R&D and KM activities have a duration of five years, all Strategic Studies will be finished after two years by september 2026. One year in future all StS will already have produced relevant and interesting results within their gap analyses, white or green papers.
It is proposed to have a few detailed talks from interested and selected work packages, supplemented by an overview talk about the rest of the EURAD-2 strategic studies, e.g.
1. EURAD-2 – programme overview and mission of the conducted strategic studies
2. Presentation of objectives and results/recommendations from WP FORSAFF (Waste management for SMRs and future fuels), WP CLIMATE (Impact of climate change on nuclear waste management), WP DITUSC (Development and Improvement of Quality Assured Thermodynamic Understanding for use in Nuclear Waste Disposal Safety Case)
3. WP ASTRA (Alternative RWM strategies)
4. WP DITOCO2030 (Next generation Digital Twins to support Optimisation, Construction and Operation of surface and subsurface radioactive waste management facilities)
5. WP OPTI (HLW repository optimisation including closure)