Waste acceptance: procedures, criteria and background

After an introduction to the swiss waste management concept the waste acceptance procedures and the corresponding documents are briefly described. Then the provisional waste acceptance criteria are discussed and the key requirements described. This includes quantitative and qualitative requirements on waste properties. The safety relevant properties (e.g. nuclide inventory, type of waste matrix and package, chemical properties) are assessed by means of a simplified safety analysis - which is applied on a case-by-case basis for each waste type. Finally, the paper summarises the experiences up to now and touches upon related activities of waste characterisation and documentation which are described in more depth in an accompanying paper. (orig.)