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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
MANAGEMENT OF SPENT FUEL FROM
NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS
Session 6 : Stakeholder Issues
C. Pescatore, Chair
Vienna 1st June , 2010
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Panel members
 Mr. Junichiro MIYASHITA – Japan ; Mayor (Mutsu; hosting city
of Japan’s first SF interim storage facility)
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Mr. Rolf PERSSON – Sweden ; Local Community Organization
(Oskarshamn)
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Mr Gustavo GONZALEZ – Chile ; Disarmament expert from
Ministry Foreign Affairs
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Mr Mariano MOLINA – Spain ; Industrial implementer (company
connected to national government)
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Mr. Thomas FLÜELER – Switzerland ; Independent specialist
from academia and cantonal government officer
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Mr. Claudio PESCATORE – OECD/NEA ; Independent specialist ,
close to national Governments of the OECD.
WHY STAKEHOLDER ISSUES ?
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Stakeholder = anyone with an interest (Aarhus
Convention; OECD/NEA)
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Public has already voiced both concerns about, but
also interest in, spent fuel management.
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In modern democracies there is no future for spent
reactor fuel management without public involvement
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 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
Panel members’ countries situations
regarding spent power-reactor fuel
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Chile ; Nuclear power under study
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Spain ; Several NPPs ; SF is waste; Siting process for national
centralised facility
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Sweden ; Several NPPs ; SF is waste; National centralised
facility operating; close to developing SF repository
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Switzerland ; Several NPPs ; SF is waste; No national
centralized storage facility; ongoing siting process for SF
repository
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Japan ; Several NPPs ; SF is resource; No national centralised
facility;
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 ?
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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?
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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)?
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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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