Reprocessing, decontamination and decommissioning waste management at Eurochemic: current and planned activities

Since the shutdown of its reprocessing activities, Eurochemic has undertaken the decontamination of the reprocessing plant and the management of the generated wastes. The decontamination has been satisfactorily completed, allowing access to all process cells. The waste management program, still going on, includes intermediate, and high-level liquid waste treatment by bituminization and vitrification, respectively. Other activities involved spent solvent destruction, the digestion into acids of alpha-bearing solid wastes, etc. The paper outlines the main features of the program