Discussion on Application of Safeguards to Geological Repositories(ASTOR) according to ROK Support Program

Year
2015
Author(s)
Donghyuk Lim - Korea Institute of Nuclear Non-proliferation and Control
Cheol Huh - Korea Institute of Nuclear Non-proliferation and Control
Abstract
Since ROK joined MSSP in 1997, ROK has performed 28 support program including safeguards approaches, training, information management, analytical services, etc. Among them, safeguards approaches take up many parts in the Support Programs. Especially, the Experts Group for Application of Safeguards to Geological Repositories (ASTOR) was established as a joint MSSP task to provide recommendations to the IAEA regarding the application of safeguards to geological repositories. In order to support and achieve a fruitful outcome, ROK complied with IAEA’s request on hosting 11th ASTOR meeting in 2014. The 11th ASTOR meeting was held in Gyeong-ju on 20th~22nd, April, 2015 and several issues were dealt with in three sessions (national update, safeguards for encapsulation plant and geological repositories and final disposal concepts).