Collaborative Projects
Environmental Impact Benchmarking Applicable for Nuclear Energy System under Normal Operation (ENV)
Objective
The objective of ENV is benchmarking of methodologies for the ranking of stressors of interest for given release and pathways scenario. It presents a generic character (comparison of ranking methodologies) and will be applied to different source terms.
Specific Research Scopes
Expected results of this project are:
- a benchmark on assessment methodology to rank radio-nuclides in terms of health related impact on human
- a comparison of the most important radio-nuclides in terms of environmental impact for a given source term
- the role of retained criteria to obtain this list and the relevance of sensitivity studies
- reference scenarios for INPRO Assessment methodology
- feed back for review of the practical application of the INPRO methodology for environmental protection
Schedule
Phase-1 (October 2009 - September 2010)
- Kick-off meeting October 2009
- Drafting on TOR
- Comments from participants and final version of the ToR including choice of scenarios
- 2nd Consultancy meeting, proposing methodology for given scenarios
- Application of the methodology to the agreed scenarios by participants
Phase-2 (October 2010 - October 2011)
- 3rd consultancy meeting, discuss progress in the application of the methodology
- 4th (final) consultancy meeting to prepare the draft report
- Publication the ENV CP report
Participating countries
Belarus, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Russia, Slovak Republic, Ukraine
Links
News story: Benchmarking the Environmental Impact of Radionuclides
3rd Consultancy meeting, 23-25 March 2011 , Paris
2nd Consultancy meeting, 24-25, June 2010, Paris
News story: Benchmarking Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Energy Systems: INPRO Collaborative Project Launched
Kick-off meeting, 15-16, October 2009, Vienna