EURAD Domain Insight (1.1.2) - Timetable for Decision Making

This Domain Insight covers the development and maintenance of broad timescales and schedules for implementing the radioactive waste management activities leading to geological disposal, using a stepwise decision-making process (in short, the 'timetable for decision making'). The ability to set and maintain a time schedule for all the activities that are needed to meet the requirements of the disposal programme is critical with respect to ensuring the eventual safe achievement of disposal and to managing the technical and human resources, as well as the funds that are required to complete the programme. The core elements of time scheduling are the identification of the sequence of steps that need to be taken, the appropriate time at which they need to be taken, the organisations involved and their respective roles, and the information and resources needed to move from one step to the next. Taking each step requires identification and assessment of the options available (optioneering) and an efficient and transparent procedure for taking effective decisions (decision-making).