Survey of National Programs for Managing High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: 2022 Update

In October 2009, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board or NWTRB) published Survey of National Programs for Managing High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel.  For each of the 13 national programs studied, the report catalogued 15 institutional arrangements that had been set in place and 15 technical approaches that had been taken to design repository systems for the long-term management of high-activity radioactive waste. (If no decision had been made, either with respect to an institutional arrangement or to a technical approach, this was also noted.) The information gathered was displayed in a set of Detailed Tables. An update to the 2009 report was published in 2016. Since 2016, changes in national waste management programs have taken place in many of the 13 countries. To remain current, the Board, therefore, decided to publish an update to the 2016 report.