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Understanding Stakeholder Issues in Spent Fuel Management from Nuclear Power Reactors

This session at the International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement in spent fuel management. With panelists from various countries such as Japan, Sweden, Chile, Spain, and Switzerland, the session explores societal perceptions, public involvement, and the necessity of building durable relationships between spent fuel facilities and local communities. The discussion emphasizes the decisiveness of technical and social demands in finding viable solutions and embraces shared decision-making among stakeholders in modern democracies. **Relevant

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Understanding Stakeholder Issues in Spent Fuel Management from Nuclear Power Reactors

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  1. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF SPENT FUEL FROM NUCLEAR POWER REACTORSSession 6 : Stakeholder IssuesC. Pescatore, Chair Vienna 1st June , 2010

  2. Panel members • Mr. Junichiro MIYASHITA – Japan ; Mayor (Mutsu; hosting city of Japan’s first SF interim storage facility) • Mr. Rolf PERSSON – Sweden ; Local Community Organization (Oskarshamn) • Mr Gustavo GONZALEZ – Chile ; Disarmament expert from Ministry Foreign Affairs • Mr Mariano MOLINA – Spain ; Industrial implementer (company connected to national government) • Mr. Thomas FLÜELER – Switzerland ; Independent specialist from academia and cantonal government officer • Mr. Claudio PESCATORE – OECD/NEA ; Independent specialist , close to national Governments of the OECD.

  3. WHY STAKEHOLDER ISSUES ? • Stakeholder = anyone with an interest (Aarhus Convention; OECD/NEA) • Public has already voiced both concerns about, but also interest in, spent fuel management. • In modern democracies there is no future for spent reactor fuel management without public involvement … • shared or publicly supported decisions result in in more durable solutions and, because of this, better solutions by and in them themselves (good balance between technical and social demands) • localities and regions in most countries possess a host of legal means to block any unwanted project

  4. Panel members’ countries situations regarding spent power-reactor fuel • Chile ; Nuclear power under study • Spain ; Several NPPs; SF is waste; Siting process for national centralised facility • Sweden ; Several NPPs; SF is waste; National centralised facility operating; close to developing SF repository • Switzerland ; Several NPPs; SF is waste; No national centralized storage facility; ongoing siting process for SF repository • Japan ; Several NPPs; SF is resource; No national centralised facility;

  5. Four questions - 1 • In your personal view or experience, what is the “symbolism” associated with spent fuel? Namely, what images it inspires, what attitudes it promotes ?

  6. Four questions - 2 • If a spent fuel management facility (storage or disposal) is foreseen/proposed in a community: how to build a durable relationship between the facility and the community?Which would be the main ingredients for it? Do you have examples?

  7. Four questions - 3 • Is spent fuel management a national problem, or one between the owner of the SF and the host communities of the various facilities (interim storage, long-term storage, disposal)?

  8. Four questions - 4 • To what extent the timescale(s) for managing the spent fuel is (are) an issue to the various stakeholders?  Do you have actual examples and data?

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