ANNEX I-H
WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE AND DISPOSAL INSTALLATIONS
Administrative details:
(a) | date (date on which the BTC was completed); |
(b) | version (unique number for reference); |
(c) | responsible officer (name and contact details). |
IDENTIFICATION OF THE INSTALLATION
1. | Name of the installation (indicate usual abbreviation, if applicable). Indicate MBA code(s) (once attributed). |
2. | Location, postal and e-mail address (functional mailbox when available) and telephone number. |
3. | Owner (legally responsible body or individual) with contact details. |
4. | Operator (legally responsible body or individual) with contact details. |
5. | Description (main features only). |
6. | Purpose and type of the installation. |
7. | Present status (e.g. design phase, under construction, in operation, closed down and/or under decommissioning, closed (for disposal installations only)). |
8. | Pre-operation information Design and construction schedule dates, estimated commissioning and operation starting dates. Requested and/or approved licence dates (e.g. decision of principle, construction and expected operation licence request dates). Information on expected date of receipts of the nuclear material. Installation design drawings to be communicated as soon as these are available. |
9. | Normal operating mode (shift system adopted, approximate dates of operating periods in year. |
10. | Area layout (map showing the installation, boundaries, buildings, roads, rivers, railways, etc.). |
11. | Layout of installation: structural containment, fences and access routes; routes followed by nuclear material; waste storage areas; waste disposal areas; each main processing area and process laboratory; test or experimental areas; analytical laboratory. |
12. | Safeguards responsible, also for nuclear material accountancy, with e-mail address (functional mailbox when available) and telephone number. |
Overall process parameters
13. | Description of the installation (indicating main items of equipment). |
14. | Process description (also indicating the modification of physical and chemical forms). |
15. | Design capacity (in weight of principal products per year). |
16. | Anticipated throughput (in the form of a forward programme indicating proportion of various feeds and products). |
17. | Other important items of equipment using, producing or processing nuclear material (such as testing and experimental equipment). |
GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS AT THE INSTALLATION, INCLUDING THOSE RELATING TO MATERIAL USE AND ACCOUNTANCY, CONTAINMENT AND SURVEILLANCE
Description of nuclear material
18. | Main material description: chemical and physical forms (including nuclear material content and enrichment); batch size/flow rate and campaign period, means of batch identification; nuclear material storage areas and plant inventory (indicating any change with throughput); frequency of receipt or shipment (batches/units per month). |
19. | Other nuclear material in the installation and its location, if any. |
20. | Schematic flowsheet for nuclear material (identifying sampling points, flow and inventory measurement points, accountability areas, inventory locations, etc.). |
21. | Types, form, ranges of nuclear material content (including enrichment, as applicable), ranges of quantities of nuclear material flow for each nuclear material handling area. |
Handling of nuclear material
22. | Containers, packaging and storage area description. |
23. | Methods and means of transfer of nuclear material (describe also equipment used). |
24. | Transportation routes followed by nuclear material (with reference to plant layout). |
25. | Shielding (for storage and transfer). |
Maintenance of the installation
26. | Maintenance, decontamination, clean-out (in cases where clean-out and/or sampling is not possible, indicate how the hold-up of nuclear material is measured or calculated): normal maintenance of the installation; installation and equipment decontamination and subsequent nuclear material recovery; installation and equipment clean-out including means of ensuring vessels are empty; installation start-up and plant shut-down (if different from normal operation). |
Protection and safety rules
27. | Specific rules for the physical access to the nuclear material for inspector information. |
28. | Specific radiological protection and health and safety rules for inspector compliance (if extensive, attach separately). |
NUCLEAR MATERIAL ACCOUNTANCY AND CONTROL (NMAC)
29. | Description of the NMAC system, the method of recording and reporting accountancy data and establishing material balances, frequency of physical inventory takings, procedures for account adjustment after plant inventory taking, mistakes, etc., under the following headings: General Source data (e.g. shipping and receiving forms, internal transfer documents, physical inventory forms, the initial recording of measurements and measurement control sheets). Procedures for making adjustments and corrections (indicating how the adjustments are authorized and substantiated); Receipts (including method of dealing with shipper/receiver differences and subsequent accounting corrections; checks and measurements used to confirm nuclear material content); Shipments (products, waste); Transfers to retained waste (method of establishing quantities, method and envisaged period of storage, possible subsequent uses of retained waste); Discards to the environment (method of establishing quantities, method of discharge); Other inventory changes, e.g. transfers to conditioned waste, unmeasured losses (method of establishing quantities); Physical inventory Description of procedures, scheduled frequency, estimated distribution of nuclear material, methods of operator’s inventory taking (both for the number of items as well as their nuclear material weights, including relevant assay method), accessibility and possible verification method for nuclear material, expected accuracy, and access to nuclear material. In particular the description of procedures shall also provide the basic inventory approach to be used, i.e. planning, organizing, and conducting the inventory taking, primary responsibility for inventory taking, process clean-out, accountancy of process residual hold-up; Operational and accounting records (including internal transfer forms, method of adjustment or correction, control measures and responsibility for records). Description of how these records are maintained, including when an adjustment or correction is needed, place where the records can be consulted, retention time and language; Particular accounting provisions Description of particular provisions, e.g. for the designation of batch IDs and methods for preventing, detecting and timely fixing of accounting discrepancies. |
30. | For each flow and inventory measurement point, and sampling points of accountability areas, provide the following information, when applicable: description of location, type, identification; expected types of inventory change at this measurement point and possibility to use this measurement point for physical inventory taking; chemical and physical form of material; sampling procedure and equipment used; measurement/analytical method and equipment used; source and level of random and systematic errors (weighing, volume, sampling, analytical); calculative and error propagation technique; technique and frequency of calibration of equipment used; programme for the continuing appraisal of the accuracy of weight, volume, sampling techniques and measurement methods; programme for statistical evaluation of data from (h) and (i). |
31. | Overall limit of error. Describe procedures to combine individual measurement error determination to obtain the overall limit of error for: shipper/receiver differences; book inventory; physical inventory; material unaccounted for (MUF). |
POST-OPERATION INFORMATION
32. | Decommissioning schedule dates (end of operation and of decommissioning dates). |
33. | Decommissioning plan, which shall include the following: key events of the decommissioning plan; removal and recovery of nuclear material. Provide a plan containing estimates of how, where and when nuclear material will be recovered and/or removed (e.g. loose material consolidated into items, removal of items, recovery/removal of material from decontamination activities, and recovery/removal of nuclear material in waste) and how it will be accounted for; removing or rendering inoperable of equipment essential for the functioning of the installation, for handling or storing nuclear material. |
OTHER INFORMATION RELEVANT FOR THE APPLICATION OF SAFEGUARDS
34. | Other optional information that the operator considers relevant to safeguarding the installation. |