Disposal of low-level radioactive wastes in the ocean

This paper reports on a strategy for the management of the disposal of low-level radioactive wastes into the marine environment that has developed over the past three decades. There has been a substantial increase in the number of international and regional agreements and a concomitant improvement in our understanding of ocean processes. With the continued development of basic guidelines of radiological protection by the International Commission on Radiological Protection, methodologies have been formulated to derive the fundamental scientific requirement: the relationship between disposal or release rate to the ocean and the resultant radiation dose to exposed human populations