Geologic Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Perspective [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Nuclear Energy Agency.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2000.
One of the challenges facing the continued availability of nuclear energy is that of ensuring the safe, environmentally acceptable and economic management of the waste generated during its production. There is a broad scientific and technical consensus that disposal of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste in deep geologic formations is an appropriate and safe means of isolating it from the biosphere for very long time scales. There have, however, been setbacks in the disposal programmes in many countries, primarily due to the failure of the waste management community to win sufficient public and political support. This report, which is based on recent work of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), reviews the progress to date in this field and the further steps that may be required to implement geologic disposal, taking into account both the technical and regulatory requirements, and the need to achieve an appropriate level of societal acceptance.This book should be of interest to government and industry decision makers, academics and all those eager to better understand what is at stake in this widely debated subject and the prospects that emerge.
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""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. PROGRESS IN LEGISLATION AND REGULATION""; ""Summary""; ""International developments""; ""National developments""; ""3. SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS""; ""Summary""; ""Disposal concepts""; ""Waste conditioning and packaging""; ""Engineered barriers""; ""The geological barrier""; ""Site characterisation""; ""Underground rock laboratories""; ""Natural analogues""; ""Performance assessment""; ""4. PROGRESS TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION""; ""Summary""; ""5. PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES""; ""Summary""
""Confidence in scientific, technical and regulatory aspects""""Achieving civil societyâ€?s confidence""; ""The search for other management options""; ""6. THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""
One of the challenges facing the continued availability of nuclear energy is that of ensuring the safe, environmentally acceptable and economic management of the waste generated during its production. There is a broad scientific and technical consensus that disposal of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste in deep geologic formations is an appropriate and safe means of isolating it from the biosphere for very long time scales. There have, however, been setbacks in the disposal programmes in many countries, primarily due to the failure of the waste management community to win sufficient public and political support. This report, which is based on recent work of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), reviews the progress to date in this field and the further steps that may be required to implement geologic disposal, taking into account both the technical and regulatory requirements, and the need to achieve an appropriate level of societal acceptance.This book should be of interest to government and industry decision makers, academics and all those eager to better understand what is at stake in this widely debated subject and the prospects that emerge.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
Radioactive wastes -- Management.
Radioactive wastes.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Engineering & Applied Sciences
Environmental Engineering