Problems of the radiation safety of the Russia nuclear power engineering

Of all the radioactive wastes known in nuclear power industry and engineering, long-lived actinides, and fission products from waste nuclear fuel are the most hazardous. One way to reduce their radiation hazard is through nuclear transmutation, which can be performed either in reactors of various types or in subcritical accelerator-driven systems, whose nuclear safety is superior to that of conventional reactors. The development of destruction principles for long-lived radioactive wastes is likely to stimulate progress in the development of nuclear power industry