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...

The safe and effective management of radioactive waste has been given utmost importance from the very inception of nuclear industry in India and it covers the entire range of activities from handling, treatment, conditioning, transport, storage and finally disposal. Radioactive waste is generated at various stages of the nuclear fuel cycle, which includes the mining and milling of uranium ore, ...

Under the terms of Article III of its Statute, the IAEA is authorized to establish standards of safety for protection against ionizing radiation and to provide for the application of these standards to peaceful nuclear activities. The regulatory related publications by means of which the IAEA establishes safety standards and measures are issued in the IAEA Safety Standards Series. This series c...

Phytoremediation of radioactive waste is a process that uses plants to remove, transfer, or immobilize radionuclides from the contaminated soil, sediment, sludge, or water, and it is a useful method for treating large-scale low-level radionuclide contamination. However, there have not been established criteria which can be utilized to screen out suitable plant species that are capable of remedi...

A guide for those who wish to understand and to work with the hydro-geochemical equilibrium code CHESS together with introductory aspects of thermodynamic principles and surface com-plexation chemistry. The CHESS model was initially written at the Ecole des Mines de Paris within the framework of the R&D program on Management and Storage of Radioactive Waste

The OECD NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency) anticipates that by 2050 the amount of nuclear-generated electricity worldwide will increase by a minimum of 1.6 times and a maximum of 3.9 times its 2008 value of 372 GWe [1]. At the same time, the amount of radioactive waste that will be produced is expected to increase substantially. High-level radioactive waste is usually derived from the burning of uran...