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The Decommissioning Waste Challenge

 The IAEA, the European Commission and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency are
working with the World Nuclear Association to consolidate the information
gathered from different initiatives on assessing waste into a single
publication, Status and Trends in Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste
Management.

The publication is an attempt to systematically summarise the
global status and trends of programmes and inventories for spent fuel and
radioactive waste management. Previous reports were published in January
2018 (covering the situation to the end of 2013) and 2022 (covering the
situation to the end of 2016).

The third edition (up to the end of 2019) is
now available in pre-print. The basic information in this publication has
been collected through submissions to the Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste
Information System (SRIS), complemented with openly available Joint
Convention National Reports. Approximately 90% of states with operating
nuclear power plants submitted their data to SRIS or their Joint Convention
National Reports, representing almost 92% of all nuclear power reactors.
Data are not available for every country, but available data provide a
clear representation of the radioactive waste that exists and an indication
of the challenges that will arise in the future as facilities still in
operation, or planned, come to the end of their useful lives.

 NS Energy 5th Oct 2026, https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/analysis/the-decommissioning-waste-challenge/

October 10, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | wastes