X-Ray Micro-CT Observation of Barrier Materials for Geological Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste

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...

Disposal of low-level radioactive waste.

The Act encouraged states to form regional compacts for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste (LLRW). The Act contained both positive and negative incentives. The positive incentive was a provision that allowed compacts to restrict access to their regional LLRW disposal facility to member states beginning in 1993, thus limiting the amount of waste disposed of in any state hosting a region...

Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste: Fate and Transport of Radioactive Materials

Disposal of Radioactive Waste

Perhaps the most important single problem arising from the increasing use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes is how to dispose of the growing amounts of radioactive waste. Many of its complex aspects were discussed at the scientific conference on the disposal of radioactive waste held by IAEA in Monaco from 16 to 21 November 1959. The conference was organized jointly with UNESCO, with the c...

Sorption of Tc(IV) to Cementitious Materials Associated with a Geological Disposal Facility for Radioactive Waste - 11129

Technetium-99 is one of the most important isotopes likely to be disposed of in the proposed UK Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for higher-activity radioactive wastes. This is due to its long half-life, high fission yield, and its ability to migrate through the geosphere when in its oxidised, pertechnetate form. However, much of the technetium in the GDF is likely to be in the lower oxidatio...