CSN Commissioner Dies sets out the lessons learnt from the Spanish experience in the preparation and execution of the first IRRS-ARTEMIS combined mission - 2020

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Commissioner Dies sets out the lessons learnt from the Spanish experience in the preparation and execution of the first IRRS-ARTEMIS combined mission

Commissioner Javier Dies from the Spanish Safety Nuclear Council (CSN), has participated on February 7th , in the meeting on optimisation of the combined missions of the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) and the Integrated Review Service for Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel Management, Decommissioning and Remediation (ARTEMIS).

This meeting was organised by the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and was held at the headquarters of the IAEA in Vienna.

The participation of the commissioner in this optimisation meeting has responded to the need of sharing the lessons learnt from Spain with representatives from other countries in order to better integrate the processes of preparation and execution of this combined mission.

During the course of the meeting, several issues were addressed, such as the need to develop a single roadmap for both missions, establishing their duration, and improved coordination within the IAEA; the early definition of interrelationships between both missions; the achievement of a self-assessment with the same approach for both parties and the identification of ARTEMIS modules that could be carried out in parallel with those of IRRS.

Likewise, there was a discussion on how to attain a complete and integrated composition of experts, without duplication, and on the development of IAEA guidelines for the preparation of the documentation that should be submitted to the review team before the mission is received.

Germany´s representative presented his country's experience in carrying out two serial missions bearing in mind the short time between each other. And, finally, they discuss the possibility of carrying out a single much more integrated mission that responds to the requirements of the two European directives, including all the modules of the IRRS, and the necessary ones of ARTEMIS that hadn´t been addressed in the IRRS part, being the final result treated as a single mission.

Spain hosted the first IRRS-ARTEMIS combined mission in October 2018 with the purpose of evaluating the national legislative, regulatory and organizational framework, and the competent regulatory authorities, in order to constantly improve Nuclear Safety, as well as the national management program of radioactive waste and its application, thereby fulfilling Directives 2014/87 / Euratom and 2011/70 / Euratom.

 

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