Radioactive Waste Management and Contaminated Site Clean-Up

Contributor contact details Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Fundamentals of radioactive waste (RAW): science, sources, classification and management strategies Abstract: 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Controlled and uncontrolled wastes 1.3 Radioactive waste (RAW) classification 1.4 Sources of waste 1.5 Managing controlled wastes 1.6 Strategies for managing uncontrolled releases and contaminated site clean-up 1.7 Sources of further information Chapter 2: Radioactive waste (RAW) categories, characterization and processing route selection Abstract: 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Basic categories of radioactive waste (RAW) 2.3 RAW characterization and control 2.4 RAW processing route selection 2.5 Sources of further information Chapter 3: International safety standards for radioactive waste (RAW) management and remediation of contaminated sites Abstract: 3.1 Introduction 3.2 International, regional and national organisations involved 3.3 International standards for radiological safety and environmental protection 3.4 Radioactive waste (RAW) management policies, regulations and standards 3.5 RAW packaging and transportation practice 3.6 Conclusion Chapter 4: Technical solutions for the management of radioactive waste (RAW): overview and methods of selection Abstract: 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Waste routing, classification and categorization 4.3 Waste management steps 4.4 Technical options for waste management 4.5 Methodologies for technology selection 4.6 Conclusion Chapter 5: Irradiated nuclear fuel management: resource versus waste Abstract: 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Temporary storage 5.3 Fuel cycle options 5.4 Managing wastes from fuel recycling 5.5 Conclusion Chapter 6: Radioactive waste (RAW) conditioning, immobilization, and encapsulation processes and technologies: overview and advances Abstract: 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Waste form definitions 6.3 Types of immobilization processes and pre-processes 6.4 Immobilization processes and technologies 6.5 Waste forms, waste packages, and the geological environment 6.6 Recent advances in waste form processing 6.7 Radiation damage in glasses and ceramics 6.8 Leach testing and its role in the waste acceptance process Chapter 7: Assessing and modelling the performance of nuclear waste and associated packages for long-term management Abstract: 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Background 7.3 Corrosion of relevant metals and alloys in mild and near-neutral pH environments 7.4 Stress corrosion and hydrogen-induced cracking of carbon steel and stainless steel 7.5 Spent nuclear fuel (SNF) degradation 7.6 Cladding performance 7.7 Summary Chapter 8: Remediation of radioactively contaminated sites and management of the resulting waste Abstract: 8.1 Introduction: definition and extent of the problem 8.2 Planning and management of environmental remediation (ER) 8.3 Waste from contaminated areas: characteristics and volume 8.4 Decontamination methodologies and techniques 8.5 Waste transportation 8.6 Waste disposal 8.7 Future trends 8.8 Conclusion Chapter 9: Safety and risk assessment of radioactive waste (RAW) and contaminated sites Abstract: 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Deterministic and probabilistic analysis methods 9.3 Safety and risk assessment 9.4 Application to the case of radionuclide escape from a near-surface disposal facility 9.5 Correlation of emergency accident levels with probabilities of occurrence: implications for the safe operation of facilities Chapter 10: Russia: experience of radioactive waste (RAW) management and contaminated site clean-up Abstract: 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Special features of radioactive waste (RAW) accumulation in the USSR 10.3 Long-term RAW isolation strategy 10.4 A new type of repository: the adoption of the controlled prolonged storage concept 10.5 Survey of modern RAW management technologies 10.6 The state system for the accounting and control of RAW and radioactive materials (RAM) 10.