This panel focused on IAEA activities in the area of predisposal management of radioactive waste with emphasis on technological aspects. Designed to address the needs of Members States, these activities cover a wide range of topics, including policy and strategy, inventory assessment, technologies and approaches for waste minimization, selection of technical options for waste processing and storage, improvement in operating practices at nuclear facilities, optimization of waste management capacity, etc. Assistance to Members States is delivered through the publication of technical guidance documents, coordinated research projects, networks, technical cooperation projects and organization of training and technical review services. The Panel presented and discussed recent accomplishments in this area and consisted of IAEA representatives and participants from Members States.

Panelists included: Susanta Kumar Samanta, IAEA (Austria); Christine Langton, Savannah River National Laboratory (USA); Anthony J. Wickham, Nuclear Technology Consultancy (United Kingdom); Vladimir Kascheev, JSC "VNIINM" (Russia); Svetlana Bratskaya, Institute of Chemistry FEDRAS (Russia); Kamil Kravarik, VUJE, Inc. Trnava (Slovakia); and Olga Batyukhnova, SUE Moscow SIA "Radon" (Russia).