Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management

REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND SPATIAL PLANNING SLOVENIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Seventh Slovenian Report under the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND SPATIAL PLANNING SLOVENIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY ADMINISTRATION Seventh Slovenian Report under the JOINT CONVENTION ON THE SAFETY OF SPENT FUEL MANAGEMENT AND ON THE SAFETY OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT October 2020 Publisher: Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration Litostrojska cesta 54 SI – 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia Phone: +386 1 472 11 00 Fax: +386 1 472 11 99 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ursjv.gov.si Ljubljana, October 2020 URSJV/RP-116/2020 ISSN 1581-6141 Photos: ARAO archive, Žirovski Vrh Mine d.o.o. archive, IJS archive, and NEK d.o.o. archive All Slovenian Reports under the Joint Convention and other information can be found on the website of the Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration at www.ursjv.gov.si. 2 Seventh Slovenian Report under the Joint Convention PREFACE The National Report on fulfilment of the obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management has been prepared in fulfilment of Slovenia’s obligations as a Contracting Party to this Convention. This report was prepared by the Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration. Contributions to the report were made by the company NEK d.o.o., the Jožef Stefan Institute, the Agency for Radwaste Management, the public company Žirovski Vrh Mine d.o.o., the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana – Department of Nuclear Medicine, the Ljubljana University Medical Centre – Department of Nuclear Medicine, and the Slovenian Radiation Protection Administration. It constitutes an updated document with basically the same structure as previous national reports under the Joint Convention. The issues raised at the sixth review meeting and future plans are addressed in Section K of the report. The report was approved by the Expert Council for Radiation and Nuclear Safety and adopted by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. Seventh Slovenian Report under the Joint Convention 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................... 4 LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................ 5 LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................................................... 6 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................................................... 7 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 8 SECTION A: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 14 SECTION B: POLICIES AND PRACTICES ............................................................................................... 15 Article 32, Paragraph 1: Reporting .......................................................................................................................................... 15 SECTION C: SCOPE OF APPLICATION .................................................................................................. 26 Article 3: Scope of Application ................................................................................................................................................ 26 SECTION D: INVENTORIES AND LISTS ............................................................................................... 27 Article 32, Paragraph 2: Reporting .......................................................................................................................................... 27 SECTION E: LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY SYSTEM ................................................................. 32 Article 18: Implementing Measures ......................................................................................................................................... 32 Article 19: Legislative and Regulatory Framework ............................................................................................................... 32 Article 20: Regulatory Body ...................................................................................................................................................... 40 SECTION F: OTHER GENERAL SAFETY PROVISIONS ...................................................................... 45 Article 21: Responsibility of the Licence Holder .................................................................................................................. 45 Article 22: Human and Financial Resources .......................................................................................................................... 46 Article 23: Quality Assurance ................................................................................................................................................... 50 Article 24: Operational Radiation Protection ........................................................................................................................ 56 Article 25: Emergency Preparedness ....................................................................................................................................... 67 Article 26: Decommissioning ................................................................................................................................................... 73 SECTIONS G AND H: SAFETY OF SPENT FUEL MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................ 77 Article 4: General Safety Requirements .................................................................................................................................. 77 Article 11: General Safety Requirements ................................................................................................................................ 77 Article 5: Existing Facilities ....................................................................................................................................................... 79 Article 12: Existing Facilities and Past Practices ................................................................................................................... 79 Article 6: Siting of Proposed Facilities .................................................................................................................................... 81 Article 13: Siting of Proposed Facilities .................................................................................................................................. 81 Article 7: Design and Construction of Facilities ................................................................................................................... 85 Article 14: Design and Construction of Facilities ................................................................................................................. 85 Article 8: Assessment of Safety of Facilities .......................................................................................................................... 90 Article 15: Assessment of Safety of Facilities ........................................................................................................................ 90 Article 9: Operation of Facilities .............................................................................................................................................. 93 Article 16: Operation of Facilities ............................................................................................................................................ 93 Article 17: Institutional Measures after Closures .................................................................................................................. 97 Planned LILW repository in Vrbina, Krško .......................................................................................................................... 98 Article 10: Disposal of Spent Fuel .........................................................................................................................................100 SECTION I: TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENT .................................................................................... 103 Article 27: Transboundary Movement ..................................................................................................................................103 SECTION J: DISUSED SEALED SOURCES ............................................................................................ 105 Article 28: Disused Sealed Sources ........................................................................................................................................105 SECTION K: GENERAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE SAFETY ................................................................ 107 SECTION L: ANNEXES ...........................................................................................................................

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