State Enterprise Radioactive Waste (SERAW) shared with the international professional community its experience in developing and applying a specialist waste traceability software in the process of RAW management. Pursuant to COUNCIL REGULATION (Euratom) 2021/100 of 25 January 2021*, the enterprise, in collaboration with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), organised its unique experience by specific areas of its core activity and presented them in the form of a Knowledge Product.
The Knowledge Product for 2024 has already been published on the JRC website.
The Automated Information System for Control of Technological Processes and Traceability of RAW is a web-based information system developed with the idea of tracking the RAW processing and management processes.
The goal of using the system is to regulate the procedure for registration, to ensure traceability and documenting of RAW with their inherent characteristics at each (in each activity) of their management stages. The system collects data related to the individual technological processes dealing with RAW. It ensures full traceability of RAW by type, activity, quantity, radionuclide and chemical composition, point of origin, storage destination and type of package used for conditioned waste. This allows on-demand queries by providing detailed and accurate information about any given RAW.
The system is capable of generating the so-called “Passport of conditioned RAW packages” containing basic information about the waste package accompanying the package to its storage destination. The developed automated information system also allows tracking the efficiency of the waste treatment installations and the effectiveness of the RAW processing methods used, which leads to improving safety in the decommissioning process, real-time RAW inventory and process traceability.
*In accordance with COUNCIL REGULATION (Euratom) 2021/100 of 25 January 2021, ANNEX I, the general objective of the Kozloduy programme is to assist Bulgaria in managing the safety challenges in respect of the decommissioning of Units 1 to 4 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, complemented by the aim of enhancing the EU added value of that programme by contributing to the dissemination of knowledge on the decommissioning process (thereby generated) to all Member States.
