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(b) National and International Data Availability: At the national level for nuclear 
fuel cycles, the accumulated volume of radioactive waste awaiting disposal could be 
obtained from the waste accountancy records maintained by the various waste 
generators or, in consolidated form, from national regulatory bodies. At present, 
almost one-third of the IAEA Member States keep some kind of national radioactive 
waste registry. The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on 
the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management requires Contracting Parties to report 
their radioactive waste inventories within their national reports. Through this 
mechanism, both the availability and the quality of data are likely to increase over 
time. A secondary source may be databases managed by international organizations 
such as the IAEA or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 
(OECD)/Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). Currently, with perhaps the exception of 
country data on spent fuel arisings, comprehensive country data from nuclear fuel 
cycles on radioactive waste awaiting disposal are not readily available. 
Data on radioactive waste from other fuel chains are not usually available. 
(c) Data References: The primary source for data includes national or state-level 
governmental organizations. The IAEA maintains the Net Enabled Waste 
Management Database (NEWMDB), which contains information on national 
radioactive waste management programmes, plans and activities, relevant laws and 
regulations, policies and radioactive waste inventories.
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The European Commission 
compiles data for the European Union Member States and for the Accession 
Countries. 
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