Nuclear Waste Management Strategic Framework for a Large- Scale Government Program

2013 ◽  
pp. 235-248
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Government Program ◽  
Strategic Framework

Introductory remarks

1986 ◽  
Vol 319 (1545) ◽  
pp. 3-3 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Scale Reactor

Radioactive waste arises in large quantities only as a consequence of the civil and military applications of nuclear energy. The problems connected with its management and eventual disposal are not, therefore, problems that would have suggested themselves as topics for research but for the existence of large-scale reactor operations. Interest in nuclear waste management has therefore both a social and a scientific origin. This is not to say, however, that the researches that are necessary in order safely and responsibly to handle nuclear radioactive waste arisings do not entrain questions of considerable scientific interest in their own right. In particular, the need to find secure disposal routes and sites lead us into geological and marine researches that have a high interest in their own academic right. There is, similarly, very considerable scientific interest in establishing and understanding the interlinked pathways through which nuclear waste, buried or otherwise disposed of, might work its way back into the food chain.

scholarly journals Non-destructive assay of nuclear waste containers using muon scattering tomography in the Horizon2020 CHANCE project

2020 ◽  
Vol 225 ◽  
pp. 06008
Author(s):  
Anna Kopp ◽  
Ahmad Alrheli ◽  
Daniel Kikoła ◽  
Mohammed Mhaidra ◽  
Patrick Stowell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Promising Technique ◽  
Muon Scattering ◽  
Non Destructive ◽  
Waste Drums

Methods for the non-destructive assay of nuclear waste drums are of great importance to the nuclear waste management community, especially where loss in continuity of knowledge about the content of drums happened or chemical processes altering the contents of the drums may occur. Muon scattering tomography has been shown to be a promising technique for the non-destructive assay of nuclear waste drums in a safe way. By measuring tracks of muons entering and leaving the probed sample and extracting scattering angles from the tracks, it is possible to draw conclusions about the contents of the sample and its spatial arrangement. Within the CHANCE project, a newly built large-scale mobile detector system for scanning and imaging the contents of nuclear waste drums using atmospheric muons is currently undergoing commissioning.

Preface

2003 ◽  
Vol 807 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Scientific Program ◽  
The World ◽  
Excellent Work

The symposium “Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XVII” was held in June 15 – 19, 2003, in Kalmar, Sweden. The symposium, which was officially opened by the County Govenor of Kalmar County, Sven Lindgren, attracted 222 participants from 21 countries. Nearly 200 papers were presented during the three days of scientific sessions.Organizing a symposium this size requires the assistance of a large number of people involved both in establishing the scientific program and in planning and executing the practical organizational arrangements. Our window to the world, the symposium's homepage, was continuously kept up to date through the excellent work of Jonny Rönnfjord.

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