Sustainability criterions and nuclear industry: the searching of environmental quality

The fundamental objective of preventive strategy of clean production is to reduce material throughout, particularly of certain priority, of hazardous materials. Achieving this objective depends crucially on being able to control the flow of chemicals through society. In the past, any such attempt at control has been based on add-on, end-of-pipe measures to reduce individual emissions from industrial sources. But today, the annual input of environmentally hazardous substances in goods (products), in stationery facilities, or entering the environment from diffuse, nonpoint sources far exceeds emissions from point sources, particularly in countries which have for some years adopted end-of-pipe measures. This paper has presented such concepts focusing the nuclear industry. (author)