Lessons Learned from More than Three Decades of Decommissioning and RAW Management in Slovakia - 20074

The purpose of this paper is to describe utilization of experience of JAVYS Company acquired while acting as the Slovak national decommissioning and radioactive waste management entity. JAVYS manages both the decommissioning of A1 NPP (shut down after series of accidents) and V1 NPP (shut down after standard operation) and related radioactive waste management. Besides JAVYS is responsible for management of institutional radioactive waste in Slovakia. The paper is focusing on selected successfully completed projects and related lessons learned from development of special procedures and implementation of activities within decommissioning and management of generated waste streams from cradle to grave. Recently, experience and lessons learned from all aforementioned activities are used internationally to provide assistance to other countries in order to overcome difficulties and to successfully implement various projects dealing with decommissioning and radioactive waste management. (authors)