Preparation of Radium and Other Spent Sealed Sources Containing Long-Lived Radonuclides to Long-Term Storage

Conference · Wed Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2003

OSTI ID:827140

Arustamov, A E; Ojovan, M I; Semenov, K N; Sobolev, I A

At present time management of radioactive waste containing long-lived a radionuclides, is one of the most serious problems. The complexity of the management this kind of waste is due to extended half-life of these radionuclides. Hence it is difficult to predict not only long-term behavior of packages with waste, but also conditions of containing geological medium. The spent sources containing long-lived radionuclides are not suitable for disposal in shallow ground repositories. They must be temporary stored in special engineered structures. Long terms storage of these sources require application of additional measures for diminishing of risk of incidents with them.

• Research Organization: Scientific and Industrial Association Radon, 2/14 Moscow, 119121, (RU); University of Sheffield, Sheffield (GB)
• Sponsoring Organization: none (US)
• OSTI ID: 827140
• Resource Relation: Conference: Waste Management 2003 Symposium, Tucson, AZ (US), 02/23/2003--02/27/2003; Other Information: PBD: 26 Feb 2003
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
HALF-LIFE
MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIUM
SEALED SOURCES
STORAGE
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES