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Deep Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: Current State and Future Challenges

Deep Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: Current State and Future Challenges

Želimir Veinović, Biljana Kovačević Zelić, Dubravko Domitrović
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 33
ISBN13: 9781466673366|ISBN10: 1466673362|EISBN13: 9781466673373
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7336-6.ch014
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Veinović, Želimir, et al. "Deep Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: Current State and Future Challenges." Handbook of Research on Advancements in Environmental Engineering, edited by Nediljka Gaurina-Medjimurec, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 367-399. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7336-6.ch014

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Veinović, Ž., Zelić, B. K., & Domitrović, D. (2015). Deep Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: Current State and Future Challenges. In N. Gaurina-Medjimurec (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Advancements in Environmental Engineering (pp. 367-399). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7336-6.ch014

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Veinović, Želimir, Biljana Kovačević Zelić, and Dubravko Domitrović. "Deep Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: Current State and Future Challenges." In Handbook of Research on Advancements in Environmental Engineering, edited by Nediljka Gaurina-Medjimurec, 367-399. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7336-6.ch014

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Abstract

Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SF) and High-Level Waste (HLW) is one of the most important and challenging problems of the modern world. Otherwise a clean, cheap, constant, and secure way to produce electricity, nuclear power plants create large amounts of highly hazardous waste. Repositories—deep Geological Disposal Facilities (GDF)—for these types of waste must prevent radionuclides from reaching the biosphere, for up to 1,000,000 years, migrating from a deep (more than 300m), stable geological environment. At present, there are no operating GDFs for SF and/or HLW, mostly due to the difficult and complex task of preparing safety cases and licensing. The purpose of this chapter is to validate the generic R&D activities in this area and present alternative concepts of Radioactive Waste (RW) management: retrievability, reversibility, regional GDFs, long-term storage, and deep borehole disposal, demonstrating the main engineering tasks in solving the problem of RW management and disposal.

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