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Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management ITALY Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management First Italian National Report Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management First Italian National Report April 2006 The present report has been drafted, on behalf of the Italian Government, by the National Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services (APAT), in coordination with other national involved Administrations and Organizations. Table of Contents Section A. Introduction........................................................................................ 1 A.1. Presentation of the report.......................................................................................... 3 A.2 Executive summary.................................................................................................... 3 Section B. Policies and Practices ....................................................................... 7 B.1. Introduction................................................................................................................. 9 B.2 Background historical information on national nuclear programme.................... 9 B.3 Decommissioning Policy ......................................................................................... 10 B.4 Spent fuel management policy and practices ....................................................... 12 B.5 Radioactive waste management policy and practices ......................................... 12 B.6 Radioactive waste classification and requirements ............................................. 14 B.6.1 Radioactive waste classification ............................................................................................................. 14 B.6.2 Radioactive waste operational management.......................................................................................... 15 B.6.3 Criteria for solid materials release .......................................................................................................... 17 Section C. Scope of Application ....................................................................... 19 Article 3 ............................................................................................................... 21 Section D. Inventories and Lists ....................................................................... 23 Article 32, paragraph 2....................................................................................... 25 D.1 Spent fuel management facilities............................................................................ 25 D.1.1 Spent fuel pool of Caorso NPP............................................................................................................... 25 D.1.2 Spent fuel pool of Trino NPP .................................................................................................................. 26 D.1.3 AVOGADRO AFR Facility....................................................................................................................... 26 D.1.4 Spent fuel pool of the EUREX facility ..................................................................................................... 27 D.1.5 Spent fuel pool of the ITREC facility....................................................................................................... 27 D.1.6 Spent Fuel in research reactors ............................................................................................................. 28 D.2 Spent Fuel Inventory ................................................................................................ 28 D.2.1 Spent Fuel currently present in Italy ....................................................................................................... 28 D.2.2 Spent fuel already sent abroad for reprocessing.................................................................................... 28 D.3 Radioactive waste management facilities.............................................................. 29 D.3.1 NPPs....................................................................................................................................................... 29 D.3.2 Fuel Cycle facilities................................................................................................................................. 31 D.3.3 Other facilities......................................................................................................................................... 33 D.4 Radioactive waste inventories. ............................................................................... 34 D.5 Nuclear facilities in the process of being decommissioned................................ 35 Section E. Legislative and Regulatory System................................................ 37 Article 18. Implementing measures .................................................................. 39 18.1 Assessment of compliance ..................................................................................... 39 i Article 19. Legislative and regulatory framework ............................................ 40 19.1 Legislative and Regulatory Framework.................................................................. 40 19.2.1 National safety requirements and regulations for radiation safety .......................................................... 44 19.2.2/3 Authorization System of nuclear installations ......................................................................................... 44 19.2.4 Institutional Control and Regulatory Inspection ...................................................................................... 47 19.2.5 Enforcement and sanctions system ........................................................................................................ 48 19.2.6 Assignment of responsibilities................................................................................................................. 48 19.2.7 Assessment of Compliance .................................................................................................................... 48 Article 20. Regulatory Body............................................................................... 49 20.1 Authorities responsible for the application of the legislative framework .......... 49 20.2 Independence of the regulatory function............................................................... 50 20.3 Assessment of Compliance..................................................................................... 50 Section F. Other General Safety Provisions..................................................... 51 Article 21. Responsibility of the licence holder ............................................... 53 21.1 Responsibility of the licence holder ....................................................................... 53 21.2 Control activities....................................................................................................... 53 21.3 Assessment of compliance ..................................................................................... 54 Article 22. Human and financial resources ...................................................... 54 22.1 Staff qualification...................................................................................................... 54 22.2 Financial resources .................................................................................................. 54 22.3 Institutional control .................................................................................................. 56 22.4 Assessment of compliance ..................................................................................... 56 Article 23. Quality assurance............................................................................. 57 23.1 Undertaken steps associated to QA programmes ................................................ 57 23.2 Assessment of compliance ..................................................................................... 58 Article 24. Operational radiation protection..................................................... 58 24.1 Undertaken steps...................................................................................................... 58 24.2 Assessment of compliance ..................................................................................... 59 Article 25. Emergency preparedness................................................................ 60 25.1 On-site and off-site emergency plans .................................................................... 60 25.2 National Plan Against Radiological Emergency.................................................... 61 25.3 Assessment of compliance ..................................................................................... 62 Article 26. Decommissioning............................................................................. 62 26.1 Undertaken steps...................................................................................................... 62 26.2 Assessment of compliance ..................................................................................... 66 Section G. Safety of Spent Fuel Management.................................................. 67 Article 4. General safety requirements ............................................................. 69 4.1 Measures to ensure protection against radiological hazards.............................. 69 4.2 Assessment
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