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PANEL DISCUSSION Summary of the Panel Discussion Concluding Session V: Partitioning and Transmutation and its impact on geological disposal Panel members: Ved Bhatnagar (Chair), European Commission, Brussels 1 Gianluca Benamati, Member of Italian Parliament 2 Bernard Boullis, CEA, France 3 Enrique Gonzalez, CIEMAT, Spain 4 Philippe Lalieux, ONDRAF/NIRAS, Belgium The objective of the panel discussion 'Radioactive Waste Management – Burn or Bury' was to instigate a lively debate about the various options dealing with the waste management for sustainability of nuclear power and to seek synergy between geological disposal and partitioning and transmutation technologies. The debate became interesting and lively by drawing parallels from the back-end of the human life-cycle in which the custom of 'burning' and 'burying' of human-waste in different communities was put forward as a point of animated reference. After a brief introduction by the chairman the panellists were invited to make a '2-slide introductory presentation' outlining briefly their views on this topic. Subsequently, the floor was open for discussion with questions from the audience and answers from the panel members. Following is a brief summary of the introductory remarks by the panellists: Mr Benamati, a member of the Italian parliament, pointed out that the European public opinion is divided 50-50, for and against nuclear energy. Most importantly, 39 % of the sampled people that are against nuclear energy could change their opinion if a permanent and safe solution for nuclear waste could be found. He pointed out that the European public, in general, was not well informed of different possibilities of waste management. He said that the public opinion could look quite differently at the problem if the nuclear waste is transmuted (burned) to decrease its half-life before disposal. He believes that politicians should be better informed about the merits of nuclear energy and composite waste management solutions. Personally, he believes that a strong synergy between the “burn and bury” lobby is the best way forward. He said that he is committed to promote the research in the field of partitioning and transmutation at national level supporting the efforts of the EU, in order to positively complement the R&D activity on geological disposal. The combined results of those two technologies could be very fruitful for the pacific use of nuclear energy. Mr Boullis first outlined the principles of 'The 2006 French Act' concerning the nuclear waste management, namely (i) continue recycling to decrease the amount of nuclear waste, radio-toxic inventory etc., (ii) establish a retrievable geological repository as the reference option for the final waste management and (iii) the year 2012 as a time point for reassessment of industrial potential of diverse options of P&T leading to a prototype of the selected process by 2020 and (iv) definition of a repository by 2015 with a view to its operation by 2025. He also pointed out the options that can be considered for adoption in future: (i) U and Pu recycled with fission products (FP) where minor ac- 153
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