What Is Suitable Leadership for High-Level Radioactive Waste (HLW) Management?

Probabilistic risk analysis for a high-level radioactive waste repository.

A probabilistic risk analysis (PRA) for a high-level radioactive waste repository is very important since it gives an estimate of its health impacts, allowing comparisons to be made with the health impacts of competing technologies. However, it is extremely difficult to develop a credible PRA for a specific repository site because of large uncertainties in future climate, hydrology, geological ...

Waste management Radioactive waste management policies

Eight senior government representatives outlined the views and policies of their countries in the field of radioactive waste management at a "scientific afternoon" during the 27th Regular Session of the General Conference of the IAEA in Vienna in October. The countries represented were Argentina, France, the Federal Republic of Germany. India, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA; sta...

Radioactive Waste Management

The Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes

The terms, low-level, mediumor intermediate-level and high-level radioactive wastes are being universally used, implying different concentrations of radionuclides or radioactivity in the waste. These terms originated in the 1950's for operational purposes and generally indicated how the waste was being handled or treated and what was being done with it under the local operating conditions at a ...

Clearance Level Discussion on Solid Radioactive Waste

INTRODUCTION In recent days, the words of clearance and clearance level are frequently used in the field of radioactive waste. This note is showing current Japanese situations on this issue and the discussion items. Clearance is defined as: removal of radioactive materials or radioactive objects within authorized practices from any further control by the Regulatory Authority. Clearance level is...