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• 2008:23 SKI’s and SSI’s review of SKB’s safety report SR-Can

  This report summarises the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate’s (SKI) and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority’s (SSI) joint review of the Swedish Nuclear Fuel & Waste Management Co’s (SKB) safety ... safety report SR-Can, on post-closure safety for a KBS-3 spent nuclear fuel repository at Forsmark and Laxemar respectively (SKB TR-06-09). As of 1 July 2008 the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority assumed...

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• 2008:29e Safety and Radiation Protection at Swedish Nuclear Power Plants 2007

  SKI considers that improvements have been implemented during the year in the management, control and following up of safety work at the plants. In some cases, however, SKI has imposed requirements that ... safety requirements in SKI’s regulations, SKIFS 2004:2 concerning the design and construction of nuclear power reactors, and the stricter requirements regarding physical protection. Concurrently preparations...

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• 2008:38 Methodology for description and evaluation of cost profiles and cost structure during transitions period

  execute the decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear power reactors and other nuclear facilities in a prudent manner. The main aim is to fulfil the demands of environmental and health codes in a pan-European ... pan-European context within well defined and reviewed financial boundaries. By creating prudent cost calculations for future decommissioning cost it is undoubtedly that credence will be given to the long term sustainability...

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• 2008:57 Discrete Feature Model (DFM) User Documentation

  software package for modelling groundwater flow and solute transport in networks of discrete features. A discretefeature conceptual model represents fractures and other waterconducting features around a repository ... fractures are excluded. A discrete feature is any entity that can conduct water and permit solute transport through bedrock, and can be reasonably represented as a piecewiseplanar conductor. Examples of such...

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• 2008:50 Study on Developments in Accident Investigation Methods: A Survey of the “State-of-the-Art”

  investigation methods are only updated when their inability to account for novel types of accidents and incidents becomes inescapable. Accident investigation methods therefore typically lag behind the socio-technological ... recognised scientific literature and in major major research & development programs, excluding methods limited to risk assessment, technological malfunctions, human reliability, and safety management methods...

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• 2008:48E Review Statement and Evaluation of the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co´s (SKB) RD&D Programme 2007

  of the RD&D Programmes (Research, Development, Demonstration) prepared by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB) is a recurrent task that the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI) must ... nuclear waste management activities in different forms and, in this context, the important issue is how the spent nuclear fuel will be handled and disposed of in the long term. The nuclear waste issue contains...

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• 2008:12 Recent Research on EMF and Health Risks. Fifth annual report from SSI’s Independent Expert Group on Electromagnetic Fields, 2007

  different frequency fields: static fields, extremely low frequency fields (ELF), intermediate fields (IF) and radiofrequency fields (RF). Recent volunteer studies have shown that movement in very strong static ... induce electrical fields in the body and sensations of vertigo in some people and also an impaired performance of a visual tracking task. New data on ELF fields and childhood leukaemia published during...

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• 2008:10 User’s manual for Ecolego Toolbox and the Discretization Block

  packages Matlab and Simulink used to solve compartment based differential equation systems, but with an added user friendly graphical interface. This report documents the new simulation toolbox and a newly developed ... powerful tool for solving problems involving a network of compartments in two dimensions. Robert Broed and Shulan Xu SSI English The CLIMB modelling team (Catchment LInked Models of radiological effects in...

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• 2008:08 SSI:s independent consequence calculations in support of the regulatory review of the SR-Can safety assessment

  With the publication of the SR-Can report at the end of 2006, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB) have presented a complete assessment of long-term safety for a KBS-3 repository. The SR-Can ... the surface environment. This review of SR-Can provides the first opportunity to apply the models and to compare the CLIMB approach with developments at SKB. Shulan Xu, Anders Wörman, Björn Dverstorp,...

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• 2008:17 Review of SR-Can: Evaluation of SKB’s handling of spent fuel performance, radionuclide chemistry and geosphere transport parameters

  review contribution in support of SKI’s and SSI’s review of SR-Can. The work presented in this report is part of the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate’s (SKI) and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority’s ... Authority’s (SSI) SR-Can review project. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB) plans to submit a license application for the construction of a repository for spent nuclear fuel in Sweden 2010...

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