3. Subcommittee Meeting Business Exchange Nuclear Decommissioning

Korean and German company representatives took the opportunity on 8 June at the 3rd meeting of the Business Exchange Sub-Committee of the WG on Nuclear Decommissioning to exchange professional views on the opportunities and challenges of waste management. After a warm welcome by the co-chairs and the introduction of new participants, Mr. Jai-hoon Jung from KEPCO E&C shared Korean experiences in planning underground disposal sites for radioactive waste and Mr. Heiko Herbell from Framatome gave an overview of the decommissioning and disposal process in Germany. While these presentations focused on waste management and interim storage in Korea and Germany, the second half of the meeting dealt with release and recycling methods. Dr Linus Bettermann, GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service GmbH, gave an insight into typical waste streams and reuse methods of materials in Germany.  Mr Hae-bok Park from KEPCO KPS presented the decommissioning process for Kori #1. The presentations were followed by fruitful question and answer sessions. The following day, a business matching session also offered companies the opportunity to meet in 1:1 sessions to deepen topics that arose from the previous day's inputs.