Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up reviews radioactive waste management processes, technologies, and international experiences. Part one explores the fundamentals of radioactive waste including sources, characterisation, and processing strategies. International safety standards, risk assessment of radioactive wastes and remediation of contaminated sites and irradiated nuclear fuel management are also reviewed. Part two highlights the current international situation across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The experience in Japan, with a specific chapter on…mehr
Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up reviews radioactive waste management processes, technologies, and international experiences. Part one explores the fundamentals of radioactive waste including sources, characterisation, and processing strategies. International safety standards, risk assessment of radioactive wastes and remediation of contaminated sites and irradiated nuclear fuel management are also reviewed. Part two highlights the current international situation across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The experience in Japan, with a specific chapter on Fukushima, is also covered. Finally, part three explores the clean-up of sites contaminated by weapons programmes including the USA and former USSR.
Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up is a comprehensive resource for professionals, researchers, scientists and academics in radioactive waste management, governmental and other regulatory bodies and the nuclear power industry.
Professor William E. Lee FREng is Deputy Chair of the Government advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM), and Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London, UK.
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Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of radioactive waste (RAW): science, sources, classification and management strategies
Abstract:
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Controlled and uncontrolled wastes
1.3 Radioactive waste (RAW) classification
1.4 Sources of waste
1.5 Managing controlled wastes
1.6 Strategies for managing uncontrolled releases and contaminated site clean-up
Chapter 3: International safety standards for radioactive waste (RAW) management and remediation of contaminated sites
Abstract:
3.1 Introduction
3.2 International, regional and national organisations involved
3.3 International standards for radiological safety and environmental protection
3.4 Radioactive waste (RAW) management policies, regulations and standards
3.5 RAW packaging and transportation practice
3.6 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Technical solutions for the management of radioactive waste (RAW): overview and methods of selection
Abstract:
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Waste routing, classification and categorization
4.3 Waste management steps
4.4 Technical options for waste management
4.5 Methodologies for technology selection
4.6 Conclusion
Chapter 5: Irradiated nuclear fuel management: resource versus waste
Abstract:
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Temporary storage
5.3 Fuel cycle options
5.4 Managing wastes from fuel recycling
5.5 Conclusion
Chapter 6: Radioactive waste (RAW) conditioning, immobilization, and encapsulation processes and technologies: overview and advances
Abstract:
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Waste form definitions
6.3 Types of immobilization processes and pre-processes
6.4 Immobilization processes and technologies
6.5 Waste forms, waste packages, and the geological environment
6.6 Recent advances in waste form processing
6.7 Radiation damage in glasses and ceramics
6.8 Leach testing and its role in the waste acceptance process
Chapter 7: Assessing and modelling the performance of nuclear waste and associated packages for long-term management
Abstract:
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Background
7.3 Corrosion of relevant metals and alloys in mild and near-neutral pH environments
7.4 Stress corrosion and hydrogen-induced cracking of carbon steel and stainless steel
7.5 Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) degradation
7.6 Cladding performance
7.7 Summary
Chapter 8: Remediation of radioactively contaminated sites and management of the resulting waste
Abstract:
8.1 Introduction: definition and extent of the problem
8.2 Planning and management of environmental remediation (ER)
8.3 Waste from contaminated areas: characteristics and volume
8.4 Decontamination methodologies and techniques
8.5 Waste transportation
8.6 Waste disposal
8.7 Future trends
8.8 Conclusion
Chapter 9: Safety and risk assessment of radioactive waste (RAW) and contaminated sites
Abstract:
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods
9.3 Safety and risk assessment
9.4 Application to the case of radionuclide escape from a near-surface disposal facility
9.5 Correlation of emergency accident levels with probabilities of occurrence: implications for the safe operation of facilities
Chapter 10
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"As the need for energy grows worldwide, nuclear energy must be considered one of the options. However, the disposal of radioactive wastes and how to clean up the contaminated sites are major deterrents. This book presents an objective view of the background and principles of management. Perhaps more importantly, it presents the conditions in the most affected countries by experts from these countries. It is a must read for anyone interested in radioactive waste problems." --Frank L. Parker, Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, USA
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