United Kingdom Regulatory Procedures for Radioactive Wastes

1982 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
F S Feates ◽  
H J Richards
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Deep Ocean ◽  
Radioactive Waste Disposal ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Radioactive Waste Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Waste Management Policy ◽  
Management Advisory

ABSTRACTIn the United Kingdom the responsibility for radioactive waste management policy lies with the environmental Ministers. The Department of the Environment is also responsible in England for authorisation of all radioactive waste disposal activities and has its own Radiochemical Inspectorate to ensure that government policy is implemented. An independent Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee reports directly to the Secretary of State for the Environment.Low-level wastes are currently disposed of by shallow burial or to the deep ocean. Sites for the disposal of intermediate-level wastes are being sought as a matter of urgency and heat-emitting, reprocessing wastes will be stored on the surface for at least fifty years. The rationale of this policy is explained.

Radiation pollution as a threat to the environmental security of the Russia

2022 ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
E. A. Sharyapova ◽  
A. V. Shuvaev ◽  
I. O. Zhavoronkova
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Radioactive Waste Management ◽  
National Security Strategy ◽  
Waste Management Policy ◽  
Industrial Complexes ◽  
The Russian Federation

The topic of the article is relevant — the problem of radioactive waste management, since the task of increasing the level of security of organizations of the country’s nuclear power-industrial complexes is one of the priorities for ensuring state and public security in the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation. The growth of radioactive waste is a hazard to human health and the environment. The state needs a unified regulation of the radioactive waste management policy and prevention of radioactive disasters.

The Spanish Radioactive Waste Management and the associated research ensuring its development from sound technical and scientific basis

2012 ◽  
Vol 1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Zuloaga ◽  
Julio Astudillo
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Radioactive Waste Management ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Waste Management Policy ◽  
The Government

ABSTRACTSpanish Radioactive Waste Management policy is established by the Government and implemented by ENRESA. The General Plan (GRWP) covers the analysis of the actual and foreseen inventories of spent fuel and all categories of radioactive waste, their present situation, the management strategy and actions identified, as well as funding and financial provisions. Very Low (VLLW) and Low and Intermediate Level Waste (LILW) are disposed of at El Cabril facility, which has two separate disposal areas: one intended for VLLW, based on clay and polyethylene and started up in 2006; and one for LILW conditioned in retrievable concrete containers, commissioned in 1992. Spent fuel (SF) is being stored in pools and in two dry storage installations. The priority is the development of the SF and HLW centralized storage facility. In 2009, the Government launched a call for candidate municipalities, in a public, participative process. In September 2010 a report was sent to the Cabinet, proposing eight volunteer communities, four of them deemed preferred. In the 90’s a deep geological repository (DGR) site identification program was carried out. DGR basic designs and associated performance assessments were developed in three rock types. ENRESA has set a research program that includes research projects in order to strengthen the link between management and scientific basis and improve the performance assessment, directed to the behavior of barriers, fuel or waste forms in different storage and final disposal conditions, and characterization techniques. There is also a participation in connected fields or supporting decision-making, such as advanced separation and transmutation.

Sound science in geological disposal in the United Kingdom

2012 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 2873-2879 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Tweed
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Radioactive Waste Management ◽  
Geological Disposal ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Nuclear Decommissioning ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe safe implementation of geological disposal must be underpinned by sound science. This paper describes the approaches taken by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Radioactive Waste Management Directorate, the implementing body for geological disposal in the UK, to build an evidence base of scientific data and understanding which is robust to scrutiny and so provides confidence in the safety of geological disposal.

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