Indonesia is expected to apply the strategy of long term storage for spent fuel generated from the Serpong
research reactor. The capacity of existing interim storage for spent fuel (ISSF) facility in principle able to
accommodate all the spent fuel generated Serpong research reactor, but it must consider long-term conditions of
the spent fuels and the wet storage facilities. This long-term strategy requires special attention to some
parameters dealing with the water chemsitry and the degradation of the materials. Besides it is necessary to built
reserve space to deal with emergencies. After the Serpong reactor decommissioned, it is recommended to build
the new dry storage to accomodate all of the spent fuel in another location since the Serpong area will be very
dense residential in the decades to come. The most realistic future back-end scenario is if Indonesia has nuclear
power plants (NPP), then the disposal of the spent fuel generated from research reactor in the future can be done
in one location with commercial spent fuel from the NPP.
