Radioactive Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation. Recent Developments from IAEA Perspective

This series of slides presents some recent developments relevant to the ICEM community: 1 - the Fukushima related developments in the IAEA: full support of the IAEA, Special meetings, expert teams dispatched to Japan to assist in areas, Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety and adoption of a Ministerial Declaration, first ever IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, IAEA Board of Governors' meeting, IAEA General Conference, lessons already learned and main results, draft comparisons between Fukushima and Chernobyl accidents; 2 - Current constrains to implementing decommissioning and environmental remediation in the IAEA Member States; 3 - Nuclear world continues to change: status and prospects of nuclear power after the Fukushima accident, Interest to expand nuclear energy programs, position of countries, IAEA's support to developed and to new nuclear programmes