Report study on management of radioactive wastes in Malaysia

The national waste treatment centre at the Nuclear Energy Unit (N.E.U.) at Bangi was formed to manage all the radioactive wastes being produced in Malaysia. The aim of this study was to determine the condition of radioactive wastes being produced by radioisotope users and other relevant services that can be offered by N.E.U. to outside related agencies. Questionaires were sent to various government and private agencies which are expected to handle radioactive materials. The results show that most of the private agencies use radioactive sealed source while the government agencies use radioactive liquid and radioactive sealed source. The sealed source and liquid radioactive are mostly used for non-destructive testing and tracer studies, respectively. Radioactive gases are used mostly in electronic industries. An approximate value rate of volume and weight of liquid and solid wastes, respectively, produced per month was determined. Some important proposals were concluded in this study to improve the management of radioactive wastes in Malaysia. (author)