Master List of MS Comments DS447 SG Predisposal Management of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities MS No. Para/Line Proposed new text Reason Accept Accepted, but modified Reject Reason for modification No. as follow Type Gen AUS 1 General No comments X Sc/Str FIN 6 General DS447 is almost identical with the X document DS448. The consistency of these guides should be verified. Even in the actual revision of the Sc/Str GER1 1 General As already requested in our statement to X two drafts there still remain a lot of the previous draft version of DS447 dated common features for the 25 March 2013, it should be examined predisposal management of closely whether the Draft Safety Guides radioactive waste arising from DS447 and DS448 can be combined and nuclear reactors and fuel cycle merged into one publication. This facilities. Almost all paragraphs in publication should contain DS447 contain general sections dealing with more general recommendations for predisposal recommendations like radiation waste management. There are only protection, roles and responsibilities, a few paragraphs and appendices management system, general safety that are specific to predisposal management of radioactive waste considerations; arising from nuclear fuel cycle one section dealing with lifecycle safety facilities. In DS447 and DS448, considerations specific for the there are a large number of predisposal management of radioactive paragraphs whose text is more or waste arising from nuclear power less identical. On the other hand, a reactors and research reactors; couple of paragraphs differ in text one section dealing with lifecycle safety (e.g. Para 6.1 in DS447 and DS448) considerations specific for the or in the assignment to subsections predisposal management of radioactive (e.g. Para 5.2 of DS447 waste arising from nuclear fuel cycle corresponds to Para 3.26 of facilities. DS448), but unmotivated. In Furthermore, it should be considered summary, there are no obvious whether the Draft Safety Guide DS454 reasons to be recognized for the of Waste from the Use of “Management preparation of two separate Safety Radioactive Materials in Medicine, Guides on this issue. Industry, Research, Agriculture and of WS-G-2.7) can also Education” (revision
Master List of MS Comments DS447 SG Predisposal Management of Radioactive Waste from Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Type MS No. Para/Line No. Proposed new text Reason Accept Accepted, but modified as follow Reject Reason for modification Gen AUS 1 General No comments X Sc/Str FIN 6 General DS447 is almost identical with the document DS448. The consistency of these guides should be verified. X Sc/Str GER1 1 General As already requested in our statement to the previous draft version of DS447 dated 25 March 2013, it should be examined closely whether the Draft Safety Guides DS447 and DS448 can be combined and merged into one publication. This publication should contain sections dealing with more general recommendations like radiation protection, roles and responsibilities, management system, general safety considerations; one section dealing with lifecycle safety considerations specific for the predisposal management of radioactive waste arising from nuclear power reactors and research reactors; one section dealing with lifecycle safety considerations specific for the predisposal management of radioactive waste arising from nuclear fuel cycle facilities. Furthermore, it should be considered whether the Draft Safety Guide DS454 “Management of Waste from the Use of Radioactive Materials in Medicine, Industry, Research, Agriculture and Education” (revision of WS-G-2.7) can also Even in the actual revision of the two drafts there still remain a lot of common features for the predisposal management of radioactive waste arising from nuclear reactors and fuel cycle facilities. Almost all paragraphs in DS447 contain general recommendations for predisposal waste management. There are only a few paragraphs and appendices that are specific to predisposal management of radioactive waste arising from nuclear fuel cycle facilities. In DS447 and DS448, there are a large number of paragraphs whose text is more or less identical. On the other hand, a couple of paragraphs differ in text (e.g. Para 6.1 in DS447 and DS448) or in the assignment to subsections (e.g. Para 5.2 of DS447 corresponds to Para 3.26 of DS448), but unmotivated. In summary, there are no obvious reasons to be recognized for the preparation of two separate Safety Guides on this issue. X
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