Abstract

Geological disposal after reprocessing, conditioning and long-term storage is the framework of high level waste(HLW)policy adopted in China. Uranium and plutonium extracted from the spent fuels could be recycled. The HLW shall be disposed of in a centralized national deep geological repository. R&D on HLW disposal started in 1985 and some progress has been made on site selection and site characterization, buffer/back-fill material study, radionuclide migration study and safety assessment, etc.

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