Waste Management Assessment and Technical Review Programme (1989 - )

The Waste Management Assessment and Technical Review Programme was launched by the IAEA in 1989 as a service to conduct peer-review of national waste management projects. The programme was built on experience gained in earlier advisory programmes.

• WATRP (Abbreviation)

Events

1978 - 1987	Peer-review of waste management projects in Sweden focusing on research being done on the handling of high level waste and spent fuel.
1988	Peer-review of waste management projects in the United Kingdom focusing on the NIREX programme for a deep level repository and specifically on safety and site assessment.
1989	Formal establishment of the Waste Management Assessment and Technical Review Programme (WATRP)
1991	WATRP review in the Republic of Korea focused on the criteria for a low and intermediate level disposal site.
1992	WATRP review in Finland focused on the overall nuclear waste management programme.
1993	WATRP review in Slovakia focused on a near surface disposal facility at the Mochovce power reactor.
1993	WATRP review in the Czech Republic focused on the deep geological disposal.
1994	WATRP review in Norway focused on a combined storage and disposal facility for low and intermediate level waste.
1996	WATRP review in France focused on a programme for the management of short lived waste at the Centre de l'Aube.

• International Atomic Energy Agency, Annual Report for 1995, Vienna, Austria, 1996, http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Documents/Anrep/Anrep95/pdfindex.html. p. 17. Details