Session: 10-01 R&D - Euratom-funded R&D Overviews

Paper Number: 110232

110232 - Predis Collaboration to Advance the Predisposal Management of Radioactive Waste 

PREDIS - Predisposal management of radioactive waste is a European Commission funded project in developing predisposal activities on treatment and conditioning methodologies for wastes for which no adequate or industrially mature solutions are currently available, 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 of the waste streams, treatment and conditioning of the waste streams, demonstrating innovations, 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.

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 is to develop the knowledge management programme and support training and mobility activities in collaboration with EJP EURAD. PREDIS project has also 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.

Presenting Author: Maria Oksa VTT

Presenting Author Biography: Dr. Maria OKSA, Senior Scientist, Project Manager, has degrees in Materials Science, with focus on metallic and ceramic materials, environmental technology and materials characterization, from Tampere University of Technology and Aalto University, Finland. She has over 20 years of experience on research of structural materials and coatings in high temperature applications, including material design, corrosion testing, failure analysis, material characterization and lifetime management. Dr. Oksa has strong experience on EU and national projects as coordinator, project manager and WP leader. She is the coordinator of PREDIS project (https://predis-h2020.eu/).