Low-level Radioactive Waste Management Research Articles

Application of spectral gamma-ray logging to low-level radioactive waste management studies at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada : P. G. Killeen, K. A. Pflug, C. J. Mwenifumbo, R. L. Zelmer & B. A. McCallum, Nuclear Geophysics, 7(4), 1993, pp 501–514

The Geological Survey of Canada R&D logging system was used to make borehole geophysical measurements at the Port Hope landfill site for the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. The objective was to assess the applicability of using borehole investigation methods to characterize low-level radioactive waste. Gamma-ray spectral logging was found to be a useful measurement for this application. A special logging protocol was developed to minimize the erects of radon

The French experience in low level radioactive waste management

The Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA-FRANCE) is now operating a new facility in the eastern part of the Paris basin which is designed to dispose of one million cubic meters of waste. The safety of the waste disposal is based on a multibarrier concept including waste packages, concrete disposal modules, site and closure operations. Under normal conditions, confinement is guaranteed by the waste packages and the disposal modules, as they prevent the waste from being leached by rainfall or underground water over a certain period of time. The site must bring an additional guarantee concerning the isolation of waste from water. Consequently, the chosen site must be located in an area where no natural disasters (landslides, earthquakes, etc.) can harm the isolating barriers. The geological, hydrogeological and chemical characteristics must allow us to minimize and control the transport of radionuclides within the ground. Finally, the chosen site must be in an area where it is easy to implement a system to monitor the environment. A set of criteria guides the choice of site. The criteria include such factors as low seismicity, geotechnical stability, a hydrogeology that is simple to model, a location sufficiently above the water table and safe from the threat of flooding, good radionuclide sorption and the absence of any mineral or other natural resources of economic interest. At the time of the closure of the disposal facility, the entire collection of modules will be covered by an impervious cap composed of clayey layers interbedded by sandy layers and overlain by humus to promote the growth of grass. The facility will then look like a succession of undulating green mounds. A 300-year monitoring period will follow the closure. During this period, the water collecting networks and cap will be maintained and radioactivity in underground and stream water will be controlled. We have selected the AUBE site as a case study to illustrate the French waste management experience. We will report on how the site characterization program has been calTied out, including the hydrogeological modelling which is being applied to both the operating and post-closure periods.

Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management: Environmental Policy, Federalism, and New York

Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management: Environmental Policy, Federalism, and New York

Public Concerns about LLRW Facility Siting

A comparative analysis of public concerns about siting low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) disposal facilities in the United States (specifically New York State), the United Kingdom, and Hungary was performed. The analysis was based on publicly expressed responses to LLRW siting processes, plans, or decisions in each country. A typology of public concerns was developed. There was a substantial similarity in the concerns expressed in all the three countries. Fifteen of the twenty concerns were observed in all three, and another two were shared by two. However, there were differences in the relative importance of the concerns and the nature of specific arguments. The results suggest that idiosyncratic economic, social, and political factors significantly influence the importance of various concerns and proposed alternative solutions to LLRW management.

The siting of locally unwanted land uses: Towards a cooperative approach

Abstract. Acknowledgements. The facility siting problem. Alternative perspectives on facility siting conflicts. Opting for cooperation: a case study in siting a low-level radioactive waste management facility. Conclusions. Bibliography.

Radioactive Waste Management

An introduction to the field of radioactive waste radioactive waste forms regulation and siting of radioactive waste public health, environmental and safety aspects low-level radioactive waste management technology radioactive waste disposal technology remediation and stabilization of radiologically contaminated sites. Appendices: radiological assessment computer codes uncontrolled hazardous waste site ranking system (hazard ranking system - HRS) current status of interstate compacts and independent large volume generating states.

米国における低レベル放射性廃棄物の管理と処分

米国における低レベル放射性廃棄物の管理と処分

Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust: Dealing with Radioactive Waste

"Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust: Dealing with Radioactive Waste." Nuclear Technology, 83(2), pp. 231–232 Additional informationNotes on contributorsRaymond L. MurrayRaymond L. Murray is professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University, joining the faculty in 1950. He assisted in the development of the first nuclear engineering curriculum and the first university nuclear reactor. He is vice-chairman of the North Carolina Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Authority and chairman of the Nuclear Energy Public Information Committee of the Triangle J Council of Governments. He currently provides reactor analysis related to criticality prevention in the Three Mile Island Unit 2 recovery program and lectures on radioactive waste management.

Issues in low-level radioactive waste management.

As a result of the breakdown of the nation’s radioactive waste management system in 1979, Congress has set a 1992 deadline for states to join together in regional "compacts" to manage and dispose of their own low-level radioactive waste. This article describes the challenges and opportunities associated with developing a new generation of waste management technologies and their institutional infrastructure, and earning the public’s confidence in them. It is written from the perspective of the Chair of the Central Midwest Compact (IL-KY) Compact Commission, but the issues are generic. In fact, their resolution is likely to set precedents for the way we deal with other hazardous wastes in the future.

Present status of low level radioactive waste management in Europe

Present status of low level radioactive waste management in Europe

Prospects of technical development for low-level radioactive waste management

Prospects of technical development for low-level radioactive waste management