Looking forward
The near future brings many new challenges, in addition to the Fund's continuous need and aspiration to uphold its expertise status and maintain business excellence. These challenges are mostly connected to the question of the intended use of the collected resources, since we are at the starting phase of the first major period of investment. This period specifically covers the completion of medium- and low-level radioactive waste repository which should be built by 2010 (the ultimate legally stipulated deadline for its completion is 2013). Such major investment projects also demand an increasingly active role of the Fund regarding the use of resources and its supervision.
Besides imminent challenges, brought by the increase in investment financing, the Fund wishes to be seen by the Stakeholders as an open expert institution and improve further its cooperation and ties with the nuclear profession in Slovenia as well as abroad, and with other institutions and local communities, with which it has a common or overlapping sphere of activity.
From all activities that the Fund is already undertaking as well as from the presented new challenges and projects, which lie ahead, we can draw the conclusion that the Fund's management has set before itself an ambitious work programme. This programme has already been set in motion but important tasks still remain for the following years.
Constant monitoring of all events, related to the Fund's activities, is also most important, especially in expert and other competent institutions in Slovenia and internationally. In this context we are primarily speaking of the International Atomic Energy Agency and various institutions with responsibility in the area of nuclear energy within the European Union. We can proudly declare that the Slovenian model for the collection of resources, which will guarantee NPP decommission as well as final disposal of radioactive waste and spent fuel, is an example of good practice not only in Slovenia but internationally as well.