STAKEHOLDER CONFIDENCE AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL Inauguration, First Workshop and Meeting of the NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence in the Area of Radioactive Waste Management

The aim of the Forum’s first workshop was to establish contacts amongst Forum participants and
to lay the basis of its future programme and methods of work. In order to give guidance to the FSC
and, at the same time, to give this initiative high-level input and visibility, the workshop was preceded
by a half-day inaugural event. Members of the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee and
invited speakers provided their perspectives in the area of stakeholder confidence. Over the following
days, five themes were addressed through plenary talks. The Forum also broke up into working groups
on the five themes. Each working group first heard and discussed a national case study, and then
developed orientations for future meetings. The deliberations of these highly interactive working
groups were reported in plenary sessions. Finally, a closed-door session reviewed future steps.