Results of the IAEA ARTEMIS review of JAEA's back-end strategy

Meguro, Yoshihiro  

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has decided to terminate operation and decommission about half of its nuclear facilities during the third mid-to-long term period. In line with this decision, JAEA has been developing policies and plans for back-end measures such as decommissioning of these facilities and radioactive waste management, and has compiled and published the back-end roadmap and the medium- to-long term plan for the facilities, respectively. In April 2021, the back-end measures were reviewed by the IAEA's ARTEMIS review service, and eight international experts evaluated the back-end measures developed by JAEA and provided many useful recommendations and suggestions for the future promotion of the measures. In this paper, an overview of the ARTEMIS review, the results of the evaluation and the recommendations are be presented.