Collaborative project Waste from Innovative Types of Reactors and Fuel Cycles (WIRAF). New proposal

WIRAF preliminary conclusions: • Deployment of innovative reactors and associated fuel cycle facilities will also create waste streams that are different (by chemical properties, activity and volumes) from the waste created by current reactors and fuel cycle facilities. • Up to now, considerations related to waste were mostly focussed on impact of this development on a high level waste associated with fuel cycle of innovative concepts. • The proposed approach taken in this report is to take also into consideration L&IL waste that will be generated during routine and abnormal operating conditions as well as waste streams from decommissioning of reactors and fuel cycle facilities. • Although it is well known that designs of innovative nuclear energy systems are still in conceptual stage, the systematic approach has been proposed to collect available information to have an idea of qualitative inventory.