NND re-establishes international professional council with experts in different disciplines of NND's decommissioning work.
-The council, made up of five external experts, will become an important forum for knowledge. Here we will receive good advice for a safe, safe and responsible decommissioning of the Norwegian nuclear facilities,” says Pål Mikkelsen, Director of Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning.
The professional council will provide both strategic advice and recommendations based on best international practices.
This week, NND's newly established professional council met for an in-depth presentation of NND's mission and scope. The subject council will meet regularly, and will be key advisors to NND in preparing for the decommissioning of the facilities, the handling and storage of spent fuels and the process of finding a location for the future radioactive waste landfill.
“NND and Norway are in a unique position to develop a “best practice” model for decommissioning, says Catherine Banet, member of the expert council.
She means that Norway is a small country with great confidence, has extensive experience from the oil industry, among other things, and has good experience in building models for good management of resources.
NND's Director also believes that Norway has a good basis for the success of decommissioning.
“We have no commercial stakeholders here, we have secure funding for the decommissioning and we have managed to build trust between different public institutions,” Mikkelsen says.
“We find that in Norway we have a common understanding of the mission of society and that what we build now and the experience we make can be reused in other contexts, so that the entire life course of industrial installations is taken care of,” he adds.
In the NND's professional council are:
Catherine Banet: Head of the Department of Energy and Resources Law at the Nordic Institute of Maritime Law, Department of Petroleum and Energy Law, University of Oslo.
Johan Andersson: Independent consultant and senior advisor on projects at the IAEA and Eurad, and advises Canadian, Czech, Japanese, British, Finnish and Swiss organisations on issues related to nuclear waste management.
Tom Heldal: Geologist and researcher at the Geological Survey of Norway.
Simon Carroll: Senior advisor at Vattenfall and researcher at the Centre for Environmental Radioactivity, Norwegian University of Environmental and Life Sciences (NMBU).
Chris Barlow: Has held various roles in the IAEA, including peer review of safety cases, workshops on developing landfill plans/safety cases, criteria for location and site selection, and higher level lectures on waste management.
