Radioactive waste management requires, as any other industrial activity, planned and systematic actions to provide adequate confidence that the entire system, processes and the products involved will satisfy given requirements for quality. The primary responsibility for the quality in terms of the achievement of specified requirements rests with the waste producer. To achieve the overall protection goals set by the regulatory authorities, quality assurance has to take place in every phase of waste management. At present, efforts to implement such measures are, to a certain extent, concentrated on waste conditioning in order to provide assurance that a waste package produced can comply with waste acceptance criteria developed for a repository and thus the safety of waste disposal is ensured.
The present report was prepared as part of the IAEA's programme on quality assurance and quality control requirements for radioactive waste packages. It outlines the quality