General Radioactive Waste Plan

6th General Radioactive Waste Plan

The General Radioactive Waste Plan (GRWP) is the document that contains the strategies and activities to be implemented and performed in Spain in relation to radioactive wastes and the dismantling of facilities and their economic-financial study. It is approved by the Cabinet and is periodically updated.

Since Enresa was set up there have been six General Radioactive Waste Plans, which have set out the courses of action and objectives of the integral waste management system that the company has developed and implemented.

The 6th General Radioactive Waste Plan is based on a proposal drawn up by Enresa in response to a request by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade and which was approved by the Cabinet on June 23rd 2006.

The process included consultations with the Autonomous Communities, this being the first time that such a public information requirement had been overcome. Its implementation came about as a result of the resolutions of the Congressional Commission for Industry, which in 2004 and in 2005 urged the Government to create a new General Radioactive Waste Plan.

This new plan presents the main milestones reached by the company in radioactive waste management and the activities to be addressed in the coming years. It includes the start-up of a Centralised Temporary Storage facility for the spent fuel and high level wastes generated in Spain and the dismantling of the nuclear power plants that reach the end of their service lifetimes.

6th General Radioactive Waste Plan

The current 6th General Radioactive Waste Plan (GRWP), approved by the Cabinet on June 23rd 2006, replaces the previous plan approved in July 1999 (5th GRWP) and constitutes a formal revision of this latter document. Detalles

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Royal Decree 1522, of July 1984, authorising the constitution of the company Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos S.A. (Enresa):

http://www.boe.es/aeboe/consultas/bases_datos/doc.php?coleccion=iberlex&id=1984/18431

http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1984/08/22/pdfs/A24186-24187.pdf