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[en] The safe management of radioactive waste is a national task required for sustainable generation of nuclear power and for energy self-reliance. This paper describes the results, efforts, and prospects for the safe management of radioactive wastes having been performed by the Nuclear Environment Technology Institute (NETEC) of the Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). Firstly, KEPCO's efforts and results for waste volume reduction are summarized to show how the number of waste drums generated per reactor-year could be reduced by about 60% during the last 10 years. Secondly, a new treatment technology, a technology for low and intermediate level waste (LILW) vitrification, was introduced to prospect how the technology reduces the waste volume and increases the inherent safety for LILW disposal. It is expected that the vitrification technology will contribute not only to reduce LILW volume to around 1/14 ∼ 1/32 but also to change the 'Not In My Back Yard' (NIMBY) syndrome to the 'Please In My Front Yard' (PIMFY) attitude of local communities/residents for LILW disposal. (author)
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); International Union of Producers and Distributors of Electrical Energy, Brussels (Belgium); Nuclear Energy Institute, Washington, DC (United States); OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris (France); [627 p.]; Feb 2001; [5 p.]; International symposium on technologies for the management of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and back end nuclear fuel cycle activities; Taejon (Korea, Republic of); 30 Aug - 3 Sep 1999; IAEA-SM--357/64; ISSN 1562-4153; 
; Also available on 1 CD-ROM from IAEA, Sales and Promotion Unit. E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/; 6 refs, 2 figs, 1 tab
; Also available on 1 CD-ROM from IAEA, Sales and Promotion Unit. E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/; 6 refs, 2 figs, 1 tab