Overview assessment of nuclear-waste management
Abstract
The environmental control technologies associated with Department of Energy nuclear waste management programs were reviewed and the most urgent problems requiring further action or follow up were identified. In order of decreasing importance they are: (1) shallow land disposal technology development; (2) active uranium mill tailings piles; (3) uranium mine dewatering; (4) site decommissioning; (5) exhumation/treatment of transuranic waste at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory; (6) uranium mine spoils; and (7) medical/institutional wastes.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- August 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982oanw.rept.....B
- Keywords:
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- Environment Protection;
- Industrial Wastes;
- Radioactive Wastes;
- Waste Disposal;
- Dewatering;
- Land Use;
- Mines (Excavations);
- Nuclear Medicine;
- Transuranium Elements;
- Uranium;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics