The IAEA's high level radioactive waste management programme
Description
This paper presents the different activities that are performed under the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) high level radioactive waste management programme. The Agency's programme is composed of five main activities (information exchange, international safety standards, R ampersand D activities, advisory services and special projects) which are described in the paper. Special emphasis is placed on the RADioactive WAste Safety Standards (RADWASS) programme which was implemented in 1991 to document international consensus that exists on the safe management of radioactive waste. The paper also raises the question about the need for regional repositories to serve certain countries that do not have the resources or infrastructure to construct a national repository
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- American Nuclear Society, Inc.
- Imprint Place
- La Grange Park, IL (United States)
- Imprint Title
- High Level Radioactive Waste Management: Proceedings of the fifth annual international conference. Volume 4
- Imprint Pagination
- 1048 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 2279-2283.
Conference
- Title
- International high-level radioactive waste management conference.
- Dates
- 22-26 May 1994.
- Place
- Las Vegas, NV (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 26041977
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- GLOBAL ASPECTS; IAEA; IAEA SAFEGUARDS; PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; SAFETY STANDARDS
- Descriptors DEC
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; MANAGEMENT; SAFEGUARDS; STANDARDS; WASTE MANAGEMENT