The IAEA Online Information Resource for Radioactive Waste Management

The NEWMDB contains information on national radioactive waste management programmes, radioactive waste inventories, radioactive waste disposal, relevant laws and regulations, waste management policies, and plans and activities. The first NEWMDB data collection cycle was conducted in March 2002 (for year 2000 data). Subsequent collections have been performed annually from 2004 onward.

The principal objectives for the NEWMDB are to:

• improve access to radioactive waste management data;
• provide a system for maintaining the international "memory" of such information;
• provide readily accessible reference material to both the Member States and the Agency's Technical Assistance programme, Waste Management Technical Review and Assessment Programme (WATRP), the "Status and Trends report" and other programmes;
• provide a means to research and assess the development and implementation of national systems for radioactive waste management in Agency Member States, and
• provide a tool to Member States that supports the reporting requirements of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (Joint Convention). read more...