Jean-Claude Amiard - Management of Radioactive Waste

2 Chapter 2Table 2.1. Attenuation factors for high-level waste deposited on the seafloor ba...Table 2.2. Deep geologic formations for radioactive waste management (source: [O...Table 2.3. Excerpt from the IAEA hierarchy of safety indicators (source: [GRI 02...Table 2.4. The various indicators that can be used in the different compartments...

3 Chapter 3Table 3.1. Typical activities of solid mine waste and thorium mining treatments ...Table 3.2. Typical activities of solid mine wastes after chemical treatments for...Table 3.3. Typical activities of liquid mine wastes during uranium extraction se...Table 3.4. Characteristics of liquid mining waste from monazite and thorium ore ...Table 3.5. The distribution of radioactivity of submerged wastes in various geog...Table 3.6. Immersions in the Northeast Atlantic from 1949 to 1966 (source: [IAE ...Table 3.7. Coordinated immersions at the 1967 NEA site (400 km from Galicia, Spa...Table 3.8. Coordinated immersions at the 1969 NEA site (900 km from Brittany, Fr...Table 3.9. Coordinated immersions at the NEA site between 1971 and 1982 (Bay of ...Table 3.10. Activity distribution (TBq) for different types of wastes dumped in ...Table 3.11. Example screening matrix for initial identification of feasible disp...Table 3.12. Waiting and processing times for a nuclear fuel cycle for a thermal ...Table 3.13. Quantities of radioactive waste and spent fuel in the European Union...Table 3.14. Examples of near-surface disposal facilities (NSDFs) (source: [OJO 1...

4 Chapter 4Table 4.1. List of waste agencies in various states (source: [PNG 10]) Table 4.2. Design features that contribute to maximizing the value added to a co...Table 4.3. Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) waste conditioning in various countries (sou...Table 4.4. Conditioning of high-level waste (HLW) in various countries (source: ...Table 4.5. Matrix and container functions in various deep geological repository ...Table 4.6. High-level waste that was in storage in the United States in 2010 and...Table 4.7. Mass activity limits per ton of waste for various radionuclides chara...Table 4.8. UK waste inventory excluding LLW (source: [MAC 15])

5 Chapter 5Table 5.1. Liquid releases (in GBq) in 2018 at the Cadarache CEN (source: [CEA 1...Table 5.2. Gaseous releases (in GBq) in 2018 at the Cadarache CEN (source: [CEA ...Table 5.3. Liquid releases (transferred to the STEP EI) and gaseous releases (in...Table 5.4. Liquid and gaseous discharges from the principal radionuclides from t...Table 5.5. Liquid and gaseous releases for 2002 from the La Hague reprocessing p...Table 5.6. Radioactive waste of various categories (volumes expressed in m3) (so...Table 5.7. Waste in various categories by volume (m3) and percentage of total at...Table 5.8. Radioactivity levels of various categories of radioactive waste in TB...Table 5.9. Waste of various categories by volume (m3) stored at waste generator ...Table 5.10. Distribution of radioactive waste by sector at the end of 2016 (in p...Table 5.11. Distribution of the total volume (m3) of waste by economic sector an...Table 5.12. Distribution of the total mass of radioactive material by economic s...Table 5.13. Summary of the radioactive waste from the nuclear power sector (sour...Table 5.14. Volume of waste from Orano’s Malvési plant (source: [AND 18c]) Table 5.15. Summary of research sector radioactive waste volumes at the end of 2...Table 5.16. Summary of defense sector radioactive waste volumes at the end of 20...Table 5.17. Summary of radioactive waste volumes from the non-electricity indust...Table 5.18. Annual change in the volume generation (m3) of waste in 2017 and 201...Table 5.19. Quantities of radioactive waste at completion estimated in volumes (...Table 5.20. Characteristics of long-lived radionuclides in a spent fuel assembly...Table 5.21. Summary of the cost of providing storage containers (source: [AND 14...Table 5.22. Summary of the operating costs of the Cigéo Center (source: [AND 14b...Table 5.23. Summary of annual costs and financing after closure of the Cigéo Cen...Table 5.24. Quantity of foreign spent fuel delivered after June 30, 2006, number...Table 5.25. Tritiated waste inventory (source: modified from [FRO 11]) Table 5.26. The principal storage sites (more than 1 million tons) for uranium o...Table 5.27. Amounts (in millions of euros) of operator contributions for the yea...

6 Chapter 6Table 6.1. Functions and limitations of some radioactive waste storage options (...

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page Radioactive Risk Set coordinated by Jean-Claude Amiard Volume 5

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5 Preface

6 Acknowledgments

7 Begin Reading

8 List of Acronyms

9 References

10 Index

11 Other titles from iSTE in Ecological Science

12 End User License Agreement

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