Status of Czech Low and Intermediate Radioactive Waste Management in the Context of European Development

• Published in: Journal of nuclear fuel cycle and waste technology (Online) 2021, 19(1), , pp.29-38
• Main Authors: Trtílek, Radek, Havlova, Vaclava, Podlaha, Josef, Svoboda, Karel, Otcovský, Tomas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 원자력공학
• ISSN: 1738-1894; 2288-5471
• DOI: 10.7733/jnfcwt.2021.19.1.29

The article summarises the status and competence of UJV Rez, a. s. (up to 2012, the Nuclear Research Institute Rez, Czech Republic) in the field of radioactive waste (RAW) management as a company managing of 95% of institutional radioactive wastes in Czech Republic. UJV Rez a. s. has been one of the Czech Republic’s key research and engineering institutions in the field of nuclear energy production since 1955. The company processes and conditions prior to storage 95% of so-called institutional RAW and is the principal partner of the state with respect to the research support of the Czech deep geological repository development project. UJV Rez a. s. boasts its own accredited radiochemical analytical test laboratory, unique of its kind in the Czech Republic. Of equal importance is UJV Rez’s active participation in a range of international organisations and associations and its involvement in wide range of international projects, and so as European projects. One of them is EU funded project PREDIS: Pre-disposal management of radioactive wastes, that has started at September 2020, focused on the field of low level radioactive waste (LLW) and intermediate level radioactive waste (ILW) pre-disposal. KCI Citation Count: 0