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Workshop: Information and memory for future decision making – radioactive waste and beyond

Workshop: Information and memory for future decision making – radioactive waste and beyond

Welcome to the webpage about the workshop: Information and memory for future decision making – radioactive waste and beyond

It was a workshop on preserving information and memory over centuries and millennia in the context of sustainable development and the future human environment.

Date: 21–23 May, 2019
Venue: Näringslivets Hus, Storgatan 19, Stockholm

The Organizing Committee

The workshop was co-hosted by:
• Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste (Kärnavfallsrådet)
• Linnaeus University
• National Archives of Sweden (Riksarkivet)
• Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM)

The Organizing Committee also includes members from the following Swedish entities
• Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB)
• Östhammar Municipality
• Oskarshamn Municipality
• Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review (MKG)
• Stockholm University

Proceedings, Vision document and Guiding principles

Here you can read the proceedings of the workshop available as a pdf.

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Below is the Vision document :

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Below is The chart of guiding principles and practical goals towards preserving RK&M for future generations (see also chapter 3 in the proceedings)

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The programme and presentations

Here is a link and the presentations.

Below you can read the programme in the pdf:

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Here is a link to the questions of the themes in the programme.

Reading before the Workshop

The Organizing committee requests that participants familiarize themselves with the following documents:

Introduction to the Workshop:

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Draft Chart of Principles and Goals:

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The Vision document:

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Additional reading

Read more about the OECD/NEA project Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory (RK&M) across Generations (for nuclear waste disposal) here.

Read more in the pdf below about Information and knowledge preservation over generations in a regulatory context from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority :

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Workshop: Information and memory for future decision making – radioactive waste and beyond

The Organizing Committee