Objective The Integrated Project ESDRED, a joint research effort by major national radioactive waste management agencies (or subsidiaries of agencies) and by research organizations, representing nine European countries, is a major step to establish a sound technical basis for demonstrating the safety of disposing spent fuel and long-lived radioactive wastes in deep geological formations and to underpin the development of a common European view on the main issues related to the management and disposal of waste. The overall objective of the Integrated Project ESDRED over 5 years is to demonstrate the technical feasibility at an industrial scale for activities carried out to construct, operate and close a deep geological repository, and at the same time comply with requirements on long-term safely, operational salty, irretrievability and monitoring. This programme provides the opportunity for RW management organisations to work together efficiently to generate solutions, systems and technologies, which can be shared. This project focuses on four activities that are addressed today neither by existing nor by easily adapted technologies of mining, civil and nuclear engineering:- buffer construction: manufacturing and construction of an engineered barrier system for horizontal disposal drifts,- waste canister transfer and emplacement into horizontal and vertical deposal cells,- heavy load emplacement in horizontal disposal drifts,- temporary sealing: reinforcing and plugging drifts with low-pH cementations materials, Monitoring and irretrievability at all steps of repository construction, operation and closure are considered in this exercise and integrated in the relevant technical modules. Each technology is developed within one technical module to provide an access to various industrial solutions compatible with national repository concepts and geological specify. Training and communication activities are developed across all modules. Fields of science engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesnuclear engineeringnuclear waste managementengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels Keywords Technical feasibility monitoring operational safety repository layout retrievability Programme(s) FP6-EURATOM-NUWASTE - Thematic priority - Management of radioactive waste of the specific framework programme for the European Atomic Energy Community within the multi-annual framework programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) NUWASTE-2003-3.2.1.1-4 - Development and testing of disposal concepts and technologies in Underground Research Laboratories Call for proposal EURATOMCALL2003-FIXEDDEADLINE See other projects for this call Funding Scheme IP - Integrated Project Coordinator AGENCE NATIONALE POUR LA GESTION DES DECHETS RADIOACTIFS EU contribution No data Address 1-7 rue Jean Monnet - Parc de la Croix Blanche CHATENAY MALABRY France See on map Total cost No data Participants (13) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ASOCIACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION Y EL DESARROLLO INDUSTRIAL DE LOS RECURSOS NATURALES Spain EU contribution No data Address Alenza 1 MADRID See on map Total cost No data CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Spain EU contribution No data Address Serrano 117 MADRID See on map Total cost No data DBE TECHNOLOGY GMBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Eschenstrasse 55 PEINE See on map Total cost No data EMPRESA NACIONAL DE RESIDUOS RADIOACTIVOS S.A. Spain EU contribution No data Address Emilio Vargas 7 MADRID See on map Total cost No data ESV EURIDICE GIE - EUROPEAN UNDERGROUND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE DISPOSAL OF WASTE IN A CLAY ENVIRONMENT Belgium EU contribution No data Address Boeretang 200 MOL See on map Total cost No data GESELLSCHAFT FUER ANLAGEN- UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT (GRS) MBH Germany EU contribution No data Address Schwertnergasse 1 KOELN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NATIONALE GENOSSENSCHAFT FUER DIE LAGERUNG RADIOAKTIVER ABFAELLE Switzerland EU contribution No data Address Hardstrasse 73 WETTINGEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNITED KINGDOM NIREX LTD United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Curie Avenue DIDCOT,HARWELL,CHILTON See on map Total cost No data NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Westerduinweg 3 PETTEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ORGANISME NATIONAL DES DECHETS RADIOACTIFS ET DES MATIERES FISSILES ENRICHIES/NATIONALE INSTELLING VOOR RADIOACTIEF AFVAL EN VERRIJKTE SPLIJTSTOFFEN Belgium EU contribution No data Address Avenue des Arts 14 BRUXELLES See on map Total cost No data POSIVA OY Finland EU contribution No data Address OLKILUOTO See on map Total cost No data SVENSK KAERNBRAENSLEHANTERING AB Sweden EU contribution No data Address Brahegatan 47 STOCKHOLM See on map Total cost No data NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING AUTHORITY United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Westlakes Science PArk - Herdus House MOOR ROW See on map Total cost No data
