PROGRAMME COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES PROGRESS JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE REPORT Ispra Establishment Italy July December 1980 * L·v* ' β' \ . 3 U * fi ¡Lx. ï*0 1 gra W S , K II il PI G 82 31 'WSSKE^&l SS8S9BBM^ESaa^^S3 COMMUNICATION Safety of Category 1.3 nuclear materials Nr 3848 WARNING The information contained in this document is communicated confidentially by the Commission of the European Communities to Member States, persons and undertakings and should not be passed on to third parties. (EuratomTreaty. Article 13, and Regulation (EEC) No. 2380/74 of the Council of Ministers). Programme Progress Report JRC Ispra July - December 1980 SAFETY OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS Abstract This document is the progress report of the programme Safety of Nuclear Materials of the Joint Research Centre for the period July-December 1980. On the basis of the Council decision on the JRC plan 1980-1983, the activity on radioactive waste management, which is carried out in the framework of the programme Safety of Nuclear Materials, has been organized into 4 projects: — Risk Evaluation — Protective Barriers — Actinide Separation —e Monitoring The main results during the reporting period were the following: Project 1. Risk Evaluation - The study for the application of the risk analysis methodology, developed at the JRC, to the Boom clay formation in Belgium has been continued.