Objective
The MoDeRn project aims at providing a reference framework for the development and possible implementation of monitoring activities and associated stakeholder engagement during relevant phases of the radioactive waste disposal process, i.e. during site characterisation, construction, operation and staged closure, as well as a post-closure institutional control phase. Monitoring provides operators and other stakeholders with in-situ data on repository evolutions, to contribute to operational safety, to help manage construction, operation and/or closure activities, and may allow for a comparison with prior safety assessments. It thus provides information to inform necessary decisions. If, in addition, monitoring activities respond to stakeholder needs and provide them with understandable results, they will contribute to transparency and possibly to stakeholder confidence in the disposal process. The project is structured into six work packages (WPs). The first four WPs are dedicated to (i) analyze key objectives and propose viable strategies, based on both technical and stakeholder considerations; to (ii) establish the state of the art and provide technical developments to match specific repository requirements; to (iii) conduct in-situ monitoring demonstration experiments using innovative techniques; and to (iv) conduct a case study of monitoring and its integration into staged disposal, including specific scenarii analysis aimed at providing guidance on how to handle and communicate monitoring results, in particular when these provide “unexpected” information. In order to provide a shared international view on how monitoring can be developed within a given national context, WP5 regroups key dissemination activities and WP6 will provide a reference framework integrating project results and describing feasible monitoring activities, suggesting relevant stakeholder engagement activities, and illustrating possible uses of monitoring results for decision-making.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-Fission-2008
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
92298 Chatenay Malabry
France
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Participants (17)
28918 LEGANES
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31224 PEINE
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28043 Madrid
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2400 Mol
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5430 Wettingen
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CA24 3HU MOOR ROW
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1755 LE Petten
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27160 Eurajoki
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110000 Praha
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104-0052 TOKYO
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87185 1382 Albuquerque
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2000 Antwerpen
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NR4 7TJ Norwich
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405 30 Goeteborg
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LE15 6AX Oakham
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8092 Zuerich
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169 03 Solna
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