Reporting Year and Inventory Reporting Date

Reporting Year

Once Authorized Users login, the NEWMDB's banner will display the following:

(1) indicates the name and the role of the User who logged in,

(2) indicates the name of the Member State (this information is linked to Users), and

(3) indicates the Reporting Year.

Reporting Year indicates the various reference years for IAEA requests for submissions to the NEWMDB. For example, the first two data collection cycles (July 2001 to March 2002 and July 2002 to January 2003) used Reporting Year = 2000. As such, Member States were asked to report information about their waste management programmes and activities, excluding waste inventories, as of the end of 2000. In the future, Member States can select a reporting year from a list and can press the GO button (3) to display the information that was submitted to the IAEA for the selected reporting year.

Inventory Reporting Date

One of the IAEA goals is to prepare a comprehensive inventory of the radioactive waste in its Member States. To achieve this goal, all Member States would have to report their radioactive waste inventories as of the same reporting date. Currently this is not achievable since not all Member States are currently able to report their radioactive wastes as of the same reporting date. In fact, within some Member States, some groups report inventories as of different reporting dates. As such the NEWMDB allows Member States to define the reference date for reporting their inventories. This can even be done at the Reporting Group level.

The recommended maximum Inventory Reporting Date is the end of the current Reporting Year. The absolute maximum is the date that an NEWMDB submission was completed (i.e., future inventories cannot be reported). This validation can only be carried out when a Country Co-ordinator indicates that a submission has been completed - see the Help topic Work Status in the CONTENTS list to the left.

Please click on the Groups link in the Contents list to the left for additional information about the Inventory Reporting Date.