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SPANISH FEDERATION OF RECOVERY
Geneva, June 2.006
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Spanish Federation of Recovery (FER)

• The Federation of Spanish Recovery sector was
  born in 1982 in order to represent the recycling
  (recovery) sector in the economic, technical and
  social fields. The Federation represents the
  sector before the civil service (environmental
  Ministry, industry Ministry, etc) and other
  private organizations and institutions.
  Now-a-days, more than 170 companies of the sector
  and many regional associations (ARA, ARMETAL,
  RECOMETAL, ARYCAT Y RECUMUR) are members of FER
• FER is Member of the Bureau of International
  Recycling (BIR), of the European Ferrous Recovery
  and Recycling Federation (EFR) and of the
  European Metal Trade and Recycling Federation
  (EUROMETREC).
• FER has participated in several projects
  concerning the packaging recycling, the ELVs,
  the WEEEs, the ELT, ect

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Protocol of Radiological Surveillance

• The Spanish protocol was born in 1999, just
  after the agreement signed by the main agents
  involved in the radiological surveillance of
  metallic materials
• The Federation of Spanish Recycling, as
  recyclers representative
• UNESID, as iron and steel industrys
  representative
• Industry Ministry, as civil services
  representative
• Infrastructures Ministry, as commercial ports
  representative
• Nuclear Security Council, as superior institution
  with competence (authority) in nuclear
  matter
• The National Company of radioactive management
  waste (ENRESA), institution charged to handle the
  radioactive waste
• The representation of other industrial sectors
  has joined the agreement, as FEAF (small
  smelting), UNIPLOM (lead refiners), ASERAL
  (aluminium refiners

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Companies joined to the protocol

• Up to now, there are 79 recycling companies, 26
  iron and steel industries, 2 smelting companies
  and 2 aluminium refining companies as signers of
  the protocol however the number of companies
  which support it increases.
• Information campaigns from the adhered
  associations have a positive influence on new
  companies support
• Moreover, through the free courses offered, the
  recycling companies could approach the problem of
  radioactivity, which was unknown, attaching it
  the importance it has. They value the magnitude
  of the problem and they get involved in the
  radiological surveillance.
• At last, any incidents in a recycling plant and
  in several iron and steel companies have the
  companies made to become aware of the risks if
  they do not control the source of supply.

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Companies joined to the protocol
FER advises its members, arranges all the papers
requested for the adherence, provides the
procedure and protocols to be followed and give
courses.
FER also provides agreements with supplier
services companies of radiological protection to
take control of the situation in case of
radiological source detection ant to buy
mechanisms of radiological surveillance
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Detections.
Thanks to the work made by these companies,
there is a control net with better systems. On
this way, the radiological materials are removed
with a control and they are increasing as more
companies join the protocol. In 1999, there were
54 notices, in 2000 were 50, in 2001 were 47, in
2002 were 72, in 2003 were 141 and in 2004 were
129.
It is important to emphasize that those notices
are not always source the NORM are also
included here. The amount of sources removed,
which entail a potential danger for the persons
and institutions, is unstable, but we could speak
of 10 to make it a round number
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Dynamic and flexible Application
The good working is the key of the Protocol. It
is put in practice in a flexible way and with
good judgment to everybody. The performance of
the teamwork groups (with representatives of
every single sector) is essential.
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Dynamic and flexible Application
They, as agents involved in the mechanism, know
who address, what to do and how to do
effectively. It allows them to act quickly not
only in case of detection of radioactivity in the
entry of a company but also in case of
incorporation of a source in the process and its
contamination, minimizing the consequences. The
existence of procedure established previously
makes possible to take immediate actions, improve
the coordination and reduce the waste and the
stop of the plant.
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Expenses
The companies take charge of expenses of the
detectors appliances, and the industry sector has
claimed subventions for these acquisitions but
there is not any help up to now. They also
assume the expenses of detection of sources its
correct detection and description by their own
ways or through a UTPR and its temporal
storage. If the companies attached to the
protocol detect a source or national NORM, the
civil service assumes the expenses of the correct
treatment of the source, treatment developed by
Enresa
If an incident takes place, the expenses of the
treatment are assumed by the company theses
expenses are much higher if the company is not a
member of the Protocol.
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Expenses
The civil service and the associations take
charge of the courses expenses, publication and
distribution of posters and informative material.
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Expenses
We can not also forget, they assumed the expenses
of the Projects and Technique Research regarding
the radiological surveillance of metallic
materials . In that sense, we can speak of this
made by ENRESA in collaboration with
Politechnique University of Pais Vasco about the
behaviour of the radionuclide in steelworks with
electric furniture with arc and this made by
Politechnique University of Madrid about control
of presence of radioactive material in raw with
arcade in the installations.
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Exports and imports
One of the biggest problems of the application of
the Protocol is the importation of sources from
foreign countries. A great deal of the sources
detected come from foreign countries, therefore
it would be very convenient a bigger control in
the countries of origin. Sources from big ports,
which had great scrap traffic, are hard to
identify his origin. Anyway, the companies
require a Certify about the non-radioactivity in
the material. In these cases, the sources are
returned to the suppliers and the expenses pass
on to them. Concerning the exports, important
effects have not been detected because our
country is mainly net importer.
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Conclusion
The experience is really positive thanks to the
involvement of every single sector affected. They
take an active part participating and
collaborating, and this is the reason of the
satisfying result. Step by step, other sectors
(aluminium, plum, refining companies) join the
Protocol, extending its application. The non-
obligatory character of the Protocol is a great
advantage because it is only binding on the
companies incorporated voluntarily. However,
there are always exceptions and there are
companies which have not join the Protocol yet
and others that they apply the Protocol
incorrectly, even if the number of these ones is
reducing.
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Resultados y experiencia de aplicaciónEvolución
temporal de las detecciones
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Resultados y experiencia de aplicaciónDetecciones
por países
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Resultados y experiencia de aplicaciónDetecciones
por países
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Resultados y experiencia de aplicaciónDistribució
n de fuentes
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Resultados y experiencia de aplicaciónMateriales
encontrados en las detecciones
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