High-Level Nuclear Waste Transportation: Political Implications of the Weakest Link in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Weakest Link ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Usa ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level

By focusing primarily on the USA but also drawing upon examples from Europe and Australia, the author examines the technical, political, and constitutional issues which surround the question of high-level nuclear waste transportation. It is revealed that there are major questions of safety and public perception which are not being addressed by state institutions, and there is a discussion of the ways in which state and professional actors have attempted to limit the political discourse on these and related policy-relevant issues.

Technological Assessment of National Nuclear Fuel Cycle Using Transmutations of High-Level Nuclear Waste (Hlw)

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Ho Woo ◽  
Yun Il Kim
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Nuclear Material ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Advanced Fuel ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level

The advanced fuel cycle initiative (AFCI) has been investigated for the safe processing of the spent nuclear fuels (SNFs), which has focused mainly on the economic factor. The simulation of the political factor is suggested, which is introduced by the political susceptibility factor (PSF), because the political situation is much more important in the treatment of the SNFs considering the characteristics of the nuclear material. The system dynamics (SD) algorithm is used in the dynamical simulation where the political aspect is emphasized. There are 5 classifications of the PSF as president, party, vote, term, and feedback. The degree of the possibility is impacted by 5 steps. Eventually, the dynamic simulation is quantified for the SNFs. The possibility of the high-level nuclear waste (HLW) repository construction increases slowly in the early stage and faster in the later stage. The importance of the political aspect for the SNFs treatment is shown as numerical values with easy estimations.

High-Level Nuclear Waste Management: How Physics Can Help

1997 ◽  
Vol 506 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Salvatores ◽  
A. Zaetita
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Reactor Physics ◽  
Basic Physics ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThe potential value of Partitioning/Transmutation (P/T) strategies for high-level nuclear waste management has been investigated (one would be tempted so say “periodically”) since 1970. The basic physics phenomena are well understood, and scenarios for the fuel cycle can be imagined. However, the criteria to judge the impact of P/T are matter for discussion (and controversy). Moreover the relation to disciplines other than reactor physics can be significant (e.g. innovative fuels and Actinide chemistry).A number of key issues are revisited here and will be discussed in some detail.

Initial Demonstration of the Vitrification of High-Level Nuclear Waste Sludge Containing an Organic Cs-Loaded Ion-Exchange Resin

1992 ◽  
Vol 294 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. E. Bibler ◽  
J. P. Bibler ◽  
M. K. Andrews ◽  
C. M. Jantzen
Keyword(s):  
Ion Exchange ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Borosilicate Glass ◽  
Exchange Resin ◽  
Ion Exchange Resin ◽  
Waste Sludge ◽  
New Process ◽  
The Usa ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACTWhen immobilizing into borosilicate glass the radionuclides in the caustic high-level radioactive wastes stored in the USA, the soluble fission product Cs-137 has to be removed from supernates of the wastes. In the current processes zeolites or an organic precipitant will be used to remove the Cs. These are then treated further and mixed with the radioactive sludges and vitrified into a borosilicate glass. This paper describes the vitrification of a mixture resulting from using a new process to remove Cs from the caustic supernate. A resorcinol based organic ion exchange resin is used. This resin was then mixed with sludge and frit and vitrified. Using an organic ion exchange resin rather than zeolite or the organic precipitant has certain advantages. For example, use of the zeolite increases the amount of glass to be made and use of the organic precipitant produces benzene as a secondary waste stream. Results in the paper indicate that a mixture of the resin, sludge and frit can be successfully vitrified in a joule-heated, slurry fed melter. However, when resin is present in the feed, the glass becomes less durable due to the increased amount of Fe(II) caused by reduction of Fe(III) in the melt. Based on the durabilities of other waste glasses, this glass is still suitable as a canistered wasteform.

Transmutation of high-level nuclear waste by means of accelerator driven system

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Aït Abderrahim ◽  
Didier De Bruyn ◽  
Gert Van den Eynde ◽  
Sidney Michiels
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Driven System ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
Accelerator Driven System ◽  
High Level

Effect of Al and Fe sources on conversion of high-level nuclear waste feed to glass

2021 ◽  
pp. 153423
Author(s):  
José Marcial ◽  
Jaroslav Kloužek ◽  
Miroslava Vernerová ◽  
Pavel Ferkl ◽  
SeungMin Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level Nuclear Waste ◽  
High Level
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document