Recent international developments in low-level waste disposal

Conference · Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:7229177

Mitchell, S J; Lakey, L T; Harmon, K M

Recent international developments in low-level waste (LLW) disposal have included a move away from ocean dumping and a trend towards engineered and deeper dispoosal. Siting efforts have accelerated as interim storage facilities and existing sites reach capacity. The suspension of ocean dumping by the London Dumping Conventions of 1983 and 1985 has affected the LLW disposal practices of several countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Japan. Their plans now include disposal in trenches, shallow concrete pits, deep mines, sub-seabed caverns, horizontal mountain tunnels, and long-term storage facilities. Other recent developments include selection of the semi-desert Vaalputs site in South Africa, licensing activities for the Konrad mine site in the Federal Republic of Germany, design of at-reactor sites in Finland, and construction of a Baltic Sea site in Sweden. Also, the French have recently selected the Aube site for engineered disposal in monoliths and tumuli, now used at the La Manche site.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 7229177
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-14291; CONF-860990-12; ON: DE87003094
• Resource Relation: Conference: 8. annual participants' information meeting of the DOE Low-Level Waste Management Program, Denver, CO, USA, 22 Sep 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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