Deep Geological Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes and Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical-Chemical Analysis

Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

Almost all major nuclear operations produce residues containing radioactive materials; in reactor operations, for example, the fission products, new elements (such as plutonium) produced by neutron irradiation and the unfissioned nuclear fuel are all radioactive. Some of this material can be put to further use: useful radioisotopes, for instance, can be extracted from the fission products and p...

The Construction and Operation of Geological Disposal Facilities for High-level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel

A key challenge over the next decade for some national programmes and an important learning opportunity for many others will be the construction and operation of the first deep geological repositories for High Level Waste (HLW) and Spent Fuel (SF). As the orientation of work on disposal shifts from mainly research, development and demonstration to industrial implementation, waste management age...

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 ...

Coupled chemical-hydraulic-mechanical behaviour of bentonites

The French R&D Programme on Deep Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste An International Peer Review

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...