Working Group 2 Safety Assessment Methods and Environmental Impact Assessment for Legacy Sites 11 October 2012
Jan 01, 2016
Working Group 2 Safety Assessment Methods and
Environmental Impact Assessment
for Legacy Sites
11 October 2012
WG 2 Members
• A. Persinko, USA – WG2 Lead• A. Mezrahi, Brazil• K. Ivanova, Bulgaria• Q. Sun, China• M. Gallerand, France• L. Juhasz, Hungary• A. Seitkazieva, Kyrgyzstan• C. Machili, Mozambique• N. Dumitrescu, Romania• O. Voitsekhovych, Ukraine• D. Shafer, USA
Deliverables
• List of Safety Assessment (SA), Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and other remediation documents in user friendly form
• Legacy sites (LS) supplementary guidance
• Environmental guidance for LS
• Checklist for reviewer and operator SA and EIA
SA and EIA Documents
• Weblinks/CONNECT
• Sort by origin
• Sort by subject area
• Pyramid – basic to less basic
• Annotated bibliography – coordinate with Shaun Guy
LS Supplemental Guidance
• IAEA documents WS-G-3.1, “Remediation Process for Areas Affected by Past Activities and Accidents” and WS-G-5.2, “Safety Assessment for the Decommissioning of Facilities Using Radioactive Material” cover many aspects of remediation and SA for LS
• Differences between LS and other decommissioning sites/grouping LS sites (U, NORM, accidents, LLW waste sites, other (submarines) (Arnoldo, Oleg)
• LS case studies (1-2 pages per study) (All)– Missing guidance elements– Good/bad practices– Remediation options
LS Supplemental Guidance
• Time aspect – long term, not continuous (David)– Long term plan with graded/phased approach– Update SA at each phase– Monitoring and institutional controls between
each phase.
• Prioritization (Marie)– Immediate actions for health and safety (e.g.,
stabilization; drinking water); for stabilization (prevent problem from getting worse); worker safety
Historic
Site Assessment
Long-term
Platform
Site Characteriz
ation
Remedial Alternatives
As a part of EIA and SA
Implement Remediation
FINISH
Monitoring
& LTSM
IC
Records keeping
Identify Critical Exposures or Sites. Stabilization to address
Workers SafetySA-2
Where objectives met
Are exposure Acceptable
??Safety Assessment (SA-1)
Baseline Exposure- Existing Exposure Situation
Unique to Legacy Sites
Prioritization of Legacy Sites and Actions needed
Phased (graded) Approach to Legacy Sites RemediationHSA Site
Characterization
EIA of Remedial Alternativ
Interim
Actions
Interim
ActionFinish Monitoring
& LTSM
ICs.
Records keeping of data
Identify Critical Exposures Stabilization, Keep conditions
Steps to make site Safe for Work
SA for Existing exposures
Monit, SA ? ICs
Monit, SA ? ICs
WG-2 Uninterrupted D&D/Remediation of Legacy Site (Remediation Cycle)
LS Supplemental Guidance
• List of remediation options (David/Drew)– Will include concepts from IAEA definition of
“remediation”– Long term surveillance and maintenance plan
consistent with IAEA definition of remediation
• Other (Oleg)– site characterization
Environmental Impacts
• Environmental guidance (Drew/David)– Review related IAEA EIA documents– Current IAEA related efforts– Not a complete document– Concepts of alternatives and cost-benefit,
including environmental impacts of no action – Broader scope – not just radiological
materials– Links to safety (e.g., site characterization,
groundwater analysis)
Checklists for SA and EIA
• SA checklist (Kremana, Oleg, Arnoldo)• EIA checklist (Drew)• Purpose
– Consistency of application and review– Completeness– Use by owner/operators – what to include– Use by regulators – completeness and what
to review
• Similar to checklist in WSG 5.2
Summary of WG2 Chapter Contents
• Introduction• Differences between LS and other decommissioning
sites• Groupings of LS sites• LS supplementary guidance
– Time aspect/not continuous– Prioritization– Remediation options– Other
• Environmental guidance• Checklists• LS Case studies • List of LS-related documents