Published June 2005
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Radioactive waste management in Portugal
Creators
- 1. Nuclear and Technological Institute, Department of Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, Sacavem (Portugal)
Description
Radioactive waste produced in Portugal results mainly from the application of radioactive materials in medicine, research and industry. In this paper, the Portuguese legislation related to radioactive waste management is presented. Up to now and concerning the management of spent and disused sealed sources, 123 drums containing mainly 60Co, 137Cs, 226Ra, and 241Am have been stored at the Radioactive Waste Interim Storage site. The main method used for the conditioning of this waste is incorporation in a cement matrix. In order to optimize radiation protection waste drums are arranged in grids optimized using a Monte Carlo simulation technique. (author)
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- IAEA
- Imprint Place
- Vienna (Austria)
- ISBN
- 92-0-102905-5
- Imprint Title
- Disposal of low activity radioactive waste. Proceedings of an international symposium
- Imprint Pagination
- 496 p.
- Series
- Proceedings series
- Journal Page Range
- p. 119-123
- ISSN
- 0074-1884
Conference
- Title
- International symposium on disposal of low activity radioactive waste
- Dates
- 13-17 Dec 2004
- Place
- Cordoba (Spain)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Austria
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36078139
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AMERICIUM 241; CEMENTS; CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; INDUSTRY; LEGISLATION; MEDICINE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PORTUGAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIUM 226; SEALED SOURCES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BUILDING MATERIALS; CALCULATION METHODS; CARBON 14 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM ISOTOPES; SIMULATION; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; STORAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE; WASTES; WESTERN EUROPE; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 4 refs, 1 fig., 1 tab Imprint:A CD-ROM containing the unedited contributed papers to the symposium is attached to the back of the Proceedings Series
- Secondary number(s)
- IAEA-CN--124; STI/PUB--1224