Waste Management

The Management of Radioactive Waste: A report by an international group of experts.
The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle in Europe: a story of achievement.

During the Uranium Institute's Annual Symposia held in September each year there have been a number of papers devoted to waste management. The abstracts of these papers are listed below.

Interim spent fuel management. C.K. Anderson (CKA Associates)
The Swedish system for spent fuel disposal. Sten Bjurström (CEO, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB))
Uranium mining and milling sites remediation - Its impact on the environment. J.L. Daroussin & J.P. Pfiffelmann. (COGEMA)
Intermediate storage and disposal of reprocessing waste: the Belgian view. Fred Decamps, Jean-Paul Boyazis & Jean-Paul Minon. (ONDRAF/NIRAS)
Why does the public refuse to believe the waste problem is solved? Colin Duncan (BNFL) and Sylvie Modigliani (COGEMA).
Safe for the future: radioactive waste disposal in the UK. John Mathieson (Nirex)

A UI pocket guide, Radioactive Waste and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, is available free of charge from the Uranium Institute.

Links to other resources

Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants NEA Issue Brief No.1.
The Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste NEA Issue Brief No.3
The Environmental and Ethical Basis of Geological Disposal of Long-Lived Radioactive Wastes A collective opinion of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency.