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Background

The SAFRAN (Safety Assessment Framework) tool is a user-friendly software application that incorporates the methodologies developed in SADRWMS (Safety Assessment Driven Radioactive Waste Management Solutions) project.

SAFRAN addresses all pre-disposal waste management activities. It has the following main functions:

To define facilities for storing or processing radioactive waste including their relevant design features.
To define waste streams including all relevant radiological and non-radiological properties and their changes through the waste management activities.
To define relevant requirements from the regulatory framework (criteria, endpoints, other requirements).
To perform safety assessments for all steps of pre-disposal waste management.
To perform calculations for quantitative analysis.
To report the decision path and documenting the safety assessment justification.
To trace changes in the safety assessment and of review comments to facilitate the development and review of safety assessments.
To support the use of safety assessment results in various areas (e.g. sitting of facilities, definition of requirements for safety functions, operational limits and conditions, operational procedures).

Sponsorship

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM), French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN).

Events

2010

SAFRAN was further developed according to the work plan with the goal to prepare the tool for wide dissemination in the August 2010. The fourth phase of test case in Thailand took place in March 2010.

2009

Attention was paid to improving of methodological issues, user interface and the calculation tool based on results from test cases. Test cases in Thailand (phases 1 - 3) took place.

2006- 2008

A version suitable for test cases was produced and made available to the members of the SADRWMS project. Test cases in Belarus, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Russia, Slovenia and Sweden took place.