Safety assessment of radioactive waste management operations in type I facilities

The safety of radioactive waste management (RWM) operations has to be ensured during the entire lifetime of any Type I facility. Safety Assessments during inspections are undertaken to verify the safety of such operations, according to the related national safety standards consistent with international agreed principles. During the inspections of Type I facilities, ARN mainly follows the action sheet shown in Figure 1 to evaluate the safety of the radioactive waste management operations. Each part of that action sheet is performed by different sections of ARN or the Responsible Organisation (RO). (author)