Integrated Waste Management Strategy and Radioactive Waste Forms for the 21st Century

Conference · Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2007

OSTI ID:912455

Gombert, Dirk; Roach, Jay

The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) was announced in 2006. As currently envisioned, GNEP will be the basis for growth of nuclear energy worldwide, using a closed proliferation-resistant fuel cycle. The Integrated Waste Management Strategy (IWMS) is designed to ensure that all wastes generated by fuel fabrication and recycling will have a routine disposition path making the most of feedback to fuel and recycling operations to eliminate or minimize byproducts and wastes. If waste must be generated, processes will be designed with waste treatment in mind to reduce use of reagents that complicate stabilization and minimize volume. The IWMS will address three distinct levels of technology investigation and systems analyses and will provide a cogent path from (1) research and development (R&D) and engineering scale demonstration, (Level I); to (2) full scale domestic deployment (Level II); and finally to (3) establishing an integrated global nuclear energy infrastructure (Level III). The near-term focus of GNEP is on achieving a basis for large-scale commercial deployment (Level II), including the R&D and engineering scale activities in Level I that are necessary to support such an accomplishment. Throughout these levels is the need for innovative thinking to simplify, including regulations, separations and waste forms to minimize the burden of safe disposition of wastes on the fuel cycle.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC07-99ID-13727
• OSTI ID: 912455
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-06-11905; TRN: US0800405
• Resource Relation: Conference: Alternative Materials for Radioactive Waste Stabilization and Nuclear Materials Containment,Barga, Italy,03/25/2007,03/29/2007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 - MGMT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
11 - NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
CONTAINMENT
FABRICATION
FEEDBACK
FUEL CYCLE
NUCLEAR ENERGY
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RECYCLING
REGULATIONS
STABILIZATION
WASTE FORMS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES
fuel reprocessing
GNEP
nuclear waste
waste forms
waste management