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Dr Tim Johnson discusses how we can tackle the nuclear waste epidemic. A world full of waste They say you can tell a lot about a society by what it throws away. ...
This article analyses the long–term consequences of nuclear waste storage within a general equilibrium framework. The objective is to determine the conditions for which the storage of waste, and thus the transfer of externalities towards the future, can be optimal. ...
Meanwhile, as a Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the EU is committed to achieving the Strategic Plan and Aichi Targets4, which include reducing the loss of natural habitats, preventing extinctions of threatened species and protecting important ecosystem services5, such as water cycling, pollination and carbon storage. The Birds and Habitats Directives form the ...
The public perception of ultimate disposal facilities for Radioactive Waste (RW) and carbon dioxide (CO2) is crucial for the selection, construction and operation of such sites. ...
Any geological disposal/storage facility must prove its safe performance prior to licensing, regardless of whether the compound is solid radioactive waste (RW) or gaseous carbon dioxide (CO2). The disposal/storage facility is considered safe if it meets the relevant safety standards and proves its reliable safe performance over defined ...
To get a sense of the costs of nuclear waste disposal, we need not look beyond the United States, which leads the world with 101,000 megawatts of nuclear-generating capacity (compared with 63,000 megawatts in second-ranked France). The United States proposes to store the radioactive waste from its 104 nuclear ...
Although closely resembling each other geographically and socio-politically, Japan and Korea differ sharply in both technological and political terms with regard to the development of nuclear power. This paper aims to illustrate Japan and Korea's commonalities and differences and thereby to highlight the major short-term challenges facing them, such as the selection of ...
An effective clearance procedure reduces the costs of radioactive waste management and waste storage. Valuable raw material will be returned into the economic cycle.Keywords: authorised use, clearance levels, clearance procedure, free release, German law, clearance regulations, radioactive waste management, Germany, ...
An analysis of archival data of liquid radioactive waste samples and Techa River bottom sediments was made, taking into consideration the radiochemical methods for extraction and beta-emitting radionuclide activity measurements existing in the early 1950s. It was stated that the radionuclide composition of the routine and accidental liquid radioactive waste ...
The promise of nuclear power for the future is bright. Solutions have been worked out for the safe storage of nuclear waste. Environmentalists are reconsidering their opposition to nuclear power. Nuclear is economically competitive with fossil systems for electricity generation. ...
These activities resulted in extraction and removal from the Kurchatov Institute site for long-term storage of more than 600 m³ of the waste with the total activity over 3.8 × 1012Bq (about 105 Ci).Keywords: rehabilitation activity, radioactive contamination, decontamination, specific activity, radioactive waste processing, dose rate ...
A sharp reduction of nuclear waste amounts is possible if their elements are considered as source material of atomic complexes – SMAC. The prospect of their possible salvaging will require technological changes and ensuring safety of storage of the material till the need arises. Long experience in deep liquid radioactive waste ...
A methodical approach is given which is applied to prediction of the persistence of the natural isolation properties of the geological environment for a time period of 104–105 years, when disposing of radioactive waste in geological formations. It is based on modelling geodynamic and tectonic processes development with time and assessing their effects on the persistence of ...
This paper deals with the environmental and public impact of radiation factors of the land-based storage facility being designed for dispositioned N/SM reactor compartments in the Russian North-West region. ...
This article presents a short history of research in nuclear physics as well as of 50 years of nuclear power and radiation protection in Switzerland. ...
This paper will discuss terrorism from the perspective of a terrorist organisation acquiring nuclear material to build weapons and how security of radiological material world wide will minimise the risk of such devices being used. It will discuss the need to improve security at nuclear waste processing and storage sites and the ...
To illustrate the result, we develop social-cost estimates for moving nuclear waste from current temporary-storage facilities to a permanent central repository at Yucca Mountain, NV, USA. For a representative city with a population of 226,195, the present value of the external cost of shipping waste is $1.42 billion when those ...
Meanwhile, the SDTs waste contents recently reached 500 m³. Recently, the invention of a system for volume reduction of the wastewater streams present in SDTs has been achieved. ...
In India, R&D work for management of high-level radioactive liquid waste (HLW) was started along with inception of the Indian Atomic Energy Programme. ...
The nuclear energy lifecycle is fraught with hazards and critical infrastructure risks, including plant operation vulnerabilities and the storage of nuclear waste. ...