PREDIS Collaboration to Advance the Predisposal Management of Radioactive Waste

PREDIS - Predisposal management of radioactive waste is a European Commission funded project to develop predisposal activities on treatment and conditioning methodologies. The target is for wastes, which yet haven’t adequate or industrially mature solutions, including metallic materials, liquid organic and solid organic waste. PREDIS project also addresses testing and evaluating innovations and digitalization solutions for cemented waste handling and pre-disposal storage. The scope of the PREDIS project includes characterization, treatment and conditioning of the waste streams, demonstrations and performance evaluation of the waste streams to verify safety and effectiveness of the new solutions. Environmental assessment of the processes and residual products, economic assessment of the treatment processes and finally guidelines for use, to ensure deployment of the new solutions are also in focus of the project. The four-year PREDIS project that started in September 2020 with 47 seven partners in 17 countries has been strong in development, collaboration and sharing information on predisposal activities both in technical issues and in strategic research agenda, waste acceptance criteria and life cycle assessment. One target of the project has been to develop the knowledge management programme and support training and mobility activities in collaboration with EJP EURAD. PREDIS project has close collaboration with stakeholders and end users, having an End User Group of 25 organisations. PREDIS project has already widely disseminated the project results via webinars, open workshops and international conferences, and had close dialogue with the stakeholders to share the relevant information on predisposal issues. This paper will present the main achievements in the research and development collaboration aspect of the PREDIS project.