Chris is involved in the management of the acceptance criteria for radioactive waste at ONDRAF/NIRAS, the Belgian Agency for management of radioactive waste and enriched fissile material. He is currently the coordinator of the expertise group charged with the development of the waste acceptance criteria.He is also a task leader in the strategic work package ROUTES of EURAD, a EU joint R&D programme on radioactive waste management. He is leader of Task 4, devoted to waste acceptance criteria.Chris De Bock was previously the project officer at ONDRAF/NIRAS in charge of the cost evaluation of both the geological and surface disposal projects. The cost evaluations provide a key input to the determination of the waste tariffs and budget provisions. Also previously at ONDRAF/NIRAS, he was chairman of the working group on the re-design of the Belgian geological repository and the preparation of its Safety Case. He is co-author of the Safety Analysis Report of the surface repository. Chris participated as Module leader in the 5-year R&D project ESDRED (of the EURATOM 6th Framework Programme), targeted on developing new geological repository technologies.Prior to joining ONDRAF/NIRAS, from 1989 to 2002 Chris De Bock was with Westinghouse Electric Company, where he was active in the design and safety evaluation of nuclear power plants. He managed several smaller and medium-scale study projects for the improvement of safety and/or efficiency in the fields of pressure vessel mechanics, thermo-hydraulics, reactor physics, control instrumentation and also for the development of plant-specific emergency response procedures. He was involved in the 1997 international independent assessment of the reactor pressure vessel of Kozloduy unit 1 (Bulgaria), which contributed to the unit’s permission to stay in operation for an additional number of years. Chris De Bock holds a degree in civil engineering (electro-mechanics) from the university of Leuven (Belgium).
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