National Perspectives of Radioactive Waste Management

Since 2007, the number of imported radioactive sources (Category 1 to Category 5) continues to increase in Madagascar. Whereas, after a few periods, they are not usable and become waste. Most of them are not stored in safe and secure places and that is why establishments holding these disused sealed radioactive sources are obliged to return them to suppliers or manufacturers. Faced with this situation, the Malagasy State in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), through the RAF9062 Project entitled: "Strengthening Radioactive Waste management" are in the process of the establishment of a national storage center of radioactive waste. To prevent loss, sabotage and theft, the national perspectives are to collect all radioactive waste generated by establishments using radioactive sources in a safe and secure location, to centralize all disused sealed radioactive, to reinforce and strengthen this national infrastructure and to implement an adequate legal framework tackling with the safety and security of radioactive waste management. (author)