Symposium on Information, Data and Knowledge Management for Radioactive Waste: Challenges Across All Timescales

Bringing together technical and non-technical experts, policy and decision makers, and interested community groups, the 2025 NEA Symposium on IDKM aims to:

• Provide a forum for WP-IDKM and its expert groups (EGs): the Expert Group on a Data and Information Management Strategy for the Safety Case (EGSSC), the Expert Group on Knowledge Management for Radioactive Waste Programmes and Decommissioning (EGKM), and the Expert Group on Archiving and Awareness Preservation (EGAAP) to present conclusions of their current work;
• Allow NEA Member Countries to present their internal initiatives and learn form the experience of others;
• Enhance the understanding of IDKM among stakeholder groups and RWMO’s, fostering dialogue and feedback;
• Unite IDKM and information technology specialists from the nuclear and non-nuclear sectors to understand the state of the art and enable horizon scanning;
• Enable networking and knowledge exchange;
• Build an international consensus on IDKM best practices for radioactive waste management;
• Develop a holistic vision of IDKM across technical and non-technical stakeholders across all timescales; and
• Identify future challenges on IDKM that would benefit from future international co-operation.