EURAD-2 is a European project 🇪🇺 dedicated to a safe radioactive waste management ☢️🚮 which follows EURAD-1 programme started in 2019 and ended in may 2024. Along waste management organisations, technical support organisations or research entities, Nuclear Transparency Watch 🔎 was included as a “linked third-party” to coordinate the participation of civil society members in some of the work packages. The results of EURAD-1 from the civil society point of view were shared on NTW’s website here: https://www.nuclear-transparency-watch.eu/activities/synthesis-of-the-ntws-results-in-eurad.html
In line, with the outcomes of EURAD-1 where a double wing model was involving civil society members at different levels: a first wing of so-called Civil Society (CS) experts following closely the work packages, producing deliverables and organizing workshops to which a second wing of civil society members were invited to participate. This helped to have complementary views on the process as well as on the results for the civil society members. However, in order to achieve a better dissemination of the results to a larger audience it was proposed to envision a “third-wing” where more civil society members could be reached outside of EURAD’s ecosystem.
Therefore, in October 2024, the month where EURAD-2 started, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the European Commission (DG Research & Innovation) 🇪🇺 jointly organise a conference called “Radioactive Waste Management: A Civil Society Perspective” on 17 October 2024 from 9:30 to 17:30, in Brussels.
Some members of NTW participated to this event and some were even invited to speak such as Peter Mihok (Slovakia) or Alexis Geisler-Roblin (France) in order to share the results of EURAD-1 from NTW’s perspective or to share the experience for civil society in a country like Slovakia.
The official kick-off meeting of EURAD-2 took place in Ghent 🇧🇪 with 220 participants representing 143 organisations from European and International countries 🌍🇪🇺 participating to 14 technical Work Packages (WP). NTW will coordinate a dozen of “CS” experts involved in the following 5 work packages:
1️⃣ PMO for “Programme Management Office”: coordination and implementation.
2️⃣ ASTRA: dedicated to alternative radioactive waste management strategies
3️⃣ FORSAFF: dedicated to waste management for SMR and future fuels.
4️⃣ CLIMATE: dedicated to the impact of climate change on nuclear waste management.
5️⃣ OPTI: dedicated to High Level Waste (HLW) repository optimisation including closure.
More information on EURAD website: https://www.ejp-eurad.eu/
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