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Conditioning of radioactive waste for storage and disposal (1983)
| Author | IAEA |
| Date | 1983 |
| Classification | 6.01.5.50/17 (WASTE - RADIOACTIVE WASTE GENERAL) |
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FOREWORD Safe management of radioactive wastes involves a series of steps from production to disposal. One key step is that of conditioning the wastes to transform them into stable and solid forms suitable for storage, transport and disposal. Much research and development work on conditioning processes has been done over the last few decades. Industrial processing for low- and intermediate-level radioactive wastes has been practised for many years and industrial operations for conditioning high-level wastes have now begun. In view of the importance of the subject, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) and the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (NEA-OECD) convened a first International Symposium on the Conditioning of Radioactive Wastes for Storage and Disposal. This took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 21 to 25 June 1982. The Symposium was hosted by the Government of the Netherlands. Some 260 participants from 34 countries and three international organizations attended. The sponsoring organizations have long been active in the dissemination of information on the treatment and conditioning of all types of radioactive wastes through the holding of symposia and the publication of a series of technical reports. The IAEA has also co-ordinated a research programme on the evaluation of high-level waste forms which has been under way for six years. The CEC carries out extensive research and development programmes in the Ispra Joint Research Centre and other European laboratories and the NEA (OECD) has been particularly active in evaluating processes for waste treatment and conditioning, and the products resulting from them. This joint Symposium is the first devoted exclusively to the present topic and the second to be co-sponsored by these three organizations.
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