Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management Fourth Italian National Report October 2014 The present report has been prepared, on behalf of the Italian Government, by the Institute for the Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) in coordination with other national involved Administrations and Organizations Table of Contents Section A. Introduction ............................................................................................1 A.1. Presentation of the report .................................................................................................... 1 A.1.1 Conclusions of the 2012 review meeting 1 A.1.2 Most relevant events since the fourth review meeting 2 A.1.2 Overview matrix of Italy 3 A.2 Executive summary .............................................................................................................. 4 Section B. Policies and Practices ........................................................................... 9 B.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 9 B.2 Background historical information on national nuclear programmes ........................... 9 B.3 Decommissioning Policy ................................................................................................... 10 B.4 Spent fuel management policy and practices ................................................................. 12 B.5 Radioactive waste management policy and practices ................................................... 13 B.6 Radioactive waste classification and requirements ....................................................... 15 B.6.1 Radioactive waste classification 15 B.6.2 Radioactive waste operational management 16 B.6.3 Criteria for solid materials release 19 Section C. Scope of Application ........................................................................... 21 Article 3 .................................................................................................................23 Section D. Inventories and Lists ........................................................................... 23 Article 32, paragraph 2 ........................................................................................ 27 D.1 Spent fuel management facilities ..................................................................................... 27 D.1.1 Spent fuel pool of Trino NPP 27 D.1.2 AVOGADRO AFR Facility 27 D.1.3 Spent fuel pool of the ITREC facility 28 D.1.4 Spent Fuel in research reactors 29 D.2 Spent Fuel Inventory .......................................................................................................... 29 D.2.1 Spent Fuel currently present in Italy 29 D.2.2 Spent fuel already sent abroad for reprocessing 30 D.3 Radioactive waste management facilities. ....................................................................... 30 D.3.1 Nuclear Power Plants 30 D.3.2 Fuel Cycle facilities 32 D.3.3 Other facilities 35 D.4 Radioactive waste inventories .......................................................................................... 36 D.5 Nuclear facilities in the process of being decommissioned .......................................... 37 Section E. Legislative and Regulatory System .................................................... 37 Article 18. Implementing measures .................................................................... 41 i 18.1 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 41 Article 19. Legislative and regulatory framework ............................................. 43 19.1 Legislative and Regulatory Framework ........................................................................... 43 19.1.1 National safety requirements and regulations for radiation safety 49 19.1.2/3 Authorization System of nuclear installations 49 19.1.4 Institutional Control and Regulatory Inspection 50 19.1.5 Enforcement and sanctions system 51 19.1.6 Assignment of responsibilities 51 19.2 Assessment of Compliance .............................................................................................. 51 Article 20. Regulatory Body ............................................................................... 52 20.1 Authorities responsible for the application of the legislative framework .................... 52 20.2 Independence of the regulatory function ........................................................................ 54 20.3 Assessment of Compliance .............................................................................................. 54 Section F. Other General Safety Provisions ........................................................ 53 Article 21. Responsibility of the licence holder ................................................ 57 21.1 Responsibility of the licence holder ................................................................................. 57 21.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 58 Article 22. Human and financial resources ....................................................... 58 22.1 Staff qualification ............................................................................................................... 58 22.2 Financial resources ............................................................................................................ 59 22.3 Institutional control ............................................................................................................ 60 22.4 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 60 Article 23. Quality assurance ............................................................................. 61 23.1 Undertaken steps associated to QA programmes .......................................................... 61 23.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 62 Article 24. Operational radiation protection ...................................................... 62 24.1 Undertaken steps ............................................................................................................... 62 24.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 64 Article 25. Emergency preparedness ................................................................ 64 25.1 On-site and off-site emergency plans .............................................................................. 64 25.2 National Plan against Radiological Emergency .............................................................. 65 25.3 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 67 Article 26. Decommissioning ............................................................................. 68 26.1 Undertaken steps ............................................................................................................... 68 26.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 71 Section G. Safety of Spent Fuel Management ..................................................... 73 Article 4. General safety requirements .............................................................. 75 4.1 Measures to ensure protection against radiological hazards ....................................... 75 4.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 76 ii Article 5. Existing facilities ................................................................................. 77 5.1 Status of safety assessment at existing facilities ........................................................... 77 5.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 84 Article 6. Siting of proposed facilities ................................................................ 84 6.1 Undertaken Steps ............................................................................................................... 85 6.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 85 Article 7. Design and construction of facilities ................................................. 86 7.1 Undertaken steps ............................................................................................................... 86 7.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 86 Article 8. Assessment of safety of facilities ...................................................... 87 8.1 Undertaken steps ............................................................................................................... 87 8.2 Assessment of compliance ............................................................................................... 87 Article 9. Operation of facilities .......................................................................... 88 9.1 Undertaken steps ............................................................................................................... 88 9.2 Assessment of Compliance ..............................................................................................