IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijgeni/v37y2014i1-2-3-4p26-51.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Safety/risk assessment methodologies of deep geological facilities: results from a cross-national comparison

Author

Listed:
  • Vaclava Havlová
  • Andrew Simons
  • Georgi Georgiev
  • Rakesh Bajpai

Abstract

Any geological disposal/storage facility must prove its safe performance prior to licensing, regardless of whether the compound is solid radioactive waste (RW) or gaseous carbon dioxide (CO2). The disposal/storage facility is considered safe if it meets the relevant safety standards and proves its reliable safe performance over defined timescales. This paper presents a cross-national comparison of the safety/risk assessment aspects of ultimate disposal facilities for RW and CO2 in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, India, and Bulgaria, completed in an international project. In both fields, the main goal of safety assessments is to create a reliable evaluation of the disposal system performance over long timescales. The procedures are based on the following scheme: system description - system development description - model development - consequence analyses. Due to the long temporal and large spatial effects of the substances disposed of, a call for the introduction of a broader range of safety indicators has emerged in both fields. The main emphasis of this study is on reliable models and data.

Suggested Citation

  • Vaclava Havlová & Andrew Simons & Georgi Georgiev & Rakesh Bajpai, 2014. "Safety/risk assessment methodologies of deep geological facilities: results from a cross-national comparison," International Journal of Global Energy Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 37(1/2/3/4), pages 26-51.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgeni:v:37:y:2014:i:1/2/3/4:p:26-51
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=65530
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijgeni:v:37:y:2014:i:1/2/3/4:p:26-51. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=13 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.