Technical Meeting on the Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Information System

The NEWMDB was run by IAEA since 2002 and it was used to collect information about national radioactive waste management programmes, radioactive waste inventories, radioactive waste disposal, relevant laws and regulations, waste management policies, and plans and activities. Since 2010, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the European Commission (EC), and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD NEA) have organized several joint meetings with the overall aim of promoting greater harmonization of reported data on national waste and spent fuel inventories, and thereby reducing the overall reporting burden on the member states of these organisations. A harmonized approach is envisaged to produce benefits to all stakeholders, including the public, as the information reported will become more consistent, easier to report, and become usable for other purposes (e.g., benchmarking of inventory data and management approaches, National Reports to the Joint Convention, etc.).The purpose of the event is for the national coordinators of the Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Information System (SRIS) to share their experiences, lessons learned and feedback on the system; and to demonstrate the functionalities, utility and benefits of the SRIS to Member States not currently using the system. The IAEA and established SRIS users will provide an overview of its features and benefits for new national coordinators. As the entry of data into SRIS is estimated to take up to one day for the initialPage 2submission, and less time for subsequent updates, this meeting will facilitate data entry process for newly nominated Country Coordinators. Part of the Technical Meeting will be dedicated to the public web page of SRIS, which was updated in 2021.