Strategy for management of solid tritiated wastes

Solid wastes are classified in terms of degassing rate and storage buildings constructed taking due account of the various contamination levels. New reprocessing methods should solve the problem in the future by elimination, de-commissioning or disposal. Solid waste originating in controlled-fusion reactors will prove a critical problem in the future because of the nature of the materials and the presence of highly gamma-irradiating activation products. Therefore, high-standard methods are required for reprocessing tritiated products to be placed in final sub-soil disposal sites. This paper deals with tritiated wastes originated in facilities, which contains neither activation nor fission products (except possibly in very small doses)