Nuclear Waste Management Facilities
Advances, Environmental Impacts, and Future Prospects
- 1st Edition - February 24, 2024
- Author: Rehab O Abdel Rahman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 0 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 0 7 - 6
Nuclear Waste Management Facilities examines best practices and recent trends in improving nuclear safety and reducing the negative environmental impacts of nuclear waste. Wi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNuclear Waste Management Facilities examines best practices and recent trends in improving nuclear safety and reducing the negative environmental impacts of nuclear waste. With a strong emphasis on regulatory requirements, this reference is essential for designing new integrated waste management practices, using lessons learned from historical and current practices.
Divided into three key parts, Part One introduces the reader to the safety and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry and the historical and current nuclear waste management practices. Part Two reviews recent technological and methodological approaches to enhancing safety, as well as reducing the environmental impacts of both individual processes and integrated facilities. Topics covered include spent fuel and radioactive waste management, legacy waste management, remediation, and decommissioning. Part Three considers some prospective for the safe management of waste from innovative reactors, and wastes that contain emerging contaminants, including waste recycling opportunities.
Nuclear Waste Management Facilities is a crucial tool needed to implement the safest and most environmentally considerate best practices within nuclear waste management facilities.
- Presents recent approaches used to assess and improve the safety and reduce the environmental impacts of nuclear waste management facilities
- Offers technical guidance to support the development and defense of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) and Safety Cases to support the waste management facilities licensing throughout their lifecycles
- Highlights the future perspectives for wastes produced from innovative reactors and wastes containing emerging contaminants, and recycling opportunities
- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Introduction to nuclear waste management sustainability
- CHAPTER 1 Sustainability and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Role of the nuclear industry in ensuring life sustainability
- 1.3 Introduction to safety and environmental assessments
- 1.4 Nuclear energy sustainability assessments
- 1.5 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 2 Historical radioactive and nuclear waste management practices: Analysis and insights for the period 1940–1990s
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Overview of radioactive waste management practices in 1940–1960
- 2.3 Development of the waste classification and categorization systems, 1940–1994
- 2.4 Case studies on integrated liquid radioactive wastes management
- 2.5 Case studies on integrated solid radioactive wastes management practices, 1940–1970
- 2.6 Historical radioactive waste disposal practices
- 2.7 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 3 Current approaches in managing nuclear wastes: Administrative requirements and technological advances
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Administrative requirements for spent fuel and radioactive waste management
- 3.3 Technological advances in spent fuel and radioactive waste management
- 3.4 Conclusion
- References
- Part 2 Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities
- CHAPTER 4 Spent fuel management: Methodological and technological advances in pre-disposal facilities
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Administrative requirements for spent fuel management
- 4.3 Spent fuel storage facilities
- 4.4 Reprocessing processes and facilities
- 4.5 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 5 Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste pre-treatment and treatment practices
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Advances in liquid radioactive waste treatment
- 5.3 Advances in solid radioactive waste treatment
- 5.4 Gaseous waste management
- 5.5 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 6 Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste conditioning and storage practices
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Advances in using cement-based materials for radioactive waste immobilization
- 6.3 Advances in using glasses for radioactive waste immobilization
- 6.4 Advances in developing other waste forms
- 6.5 Advances in packaging nuclear/radioactive wastes
- 6.6 Advances in storing radioactive waste
- 6.7 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 7 Decommissioning of the nuclear waste management facilities: Practice and innovative trends toward efficient waste minimization
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Administrative measures to ensure effective decommissioning
- 7.3 Radiological characterization
- 7.4 Decontamination to support the decommissioning
- 7.5 Dismantling and demolishing
- 7.6 Management of the generated materials and wastes
- 7.7 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 8 Case studies on the practices and advances in legacy waste management
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Legacy waste package characterizations
- 8.3 Case study (7): Sorting and segregation of low-level waste packages
- 8.4 Retrieval of remote handled legacy waste packages
- 8.5 Case study (11): Integrated pre-disposal management of legacy liquid low-level waste
- 8.6 Pre-disposal management of liquid high-level waste
- 8.7 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 9 Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities: Disposal facilities
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Options for radioactive waste disposal
- 9.3 Advances in radioactive waste disposal
- 9.4 Continual and new challenges
- 9.5 Conclusion and future outlook
- References
- CHAPTER 10 Remediation of radioactive contaminated sites: Conventional and innovative trends towards sustainable practice
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Tools to support the decision-making process in remediation programs
- 10.3 Case studies on radiological characterization of contaminated sites
- 10.4 Conventional and innovative trends in remediation
- 10.5 Conclusion
- References
- Part 3 Future perspectives on nuclear waste management
- CHAPTER 11 Prospective on the management of innovative power reactors wastes: Infrastructure requirements
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 General infrastructure requirements for the projected wastes
- 11.3 Projected waste from large advanced nuclear power reactors
- 11.4 Projected waste from small modular reactors of mature design
- 11.5 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 12 Prospective on management of nuclear waste containing contaminants of emerging concerns
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 General perspectives on the management of material containing emerging contaminants
- 12.3 Screening and prioritization schemes
- 12.4 Administrative tools for source control and contaminants monitoring
- 12.5 Controlling the contaminants of emerging concerns in nuclear/radioactive wastes management
- 12.6 Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 13 Perspectives on the factors that affect the recycling and reuse of cleared, radioactive, and nuclear materials
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Availability of technically feasible applications
- 13.3 Availability of supporting regulations
- 13.4 Acceptable economic return
- 13.5 Public acceptance
- 13.6 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 556
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 24, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323960083
- eBook ISBN: 9780323960076
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Rehab O Abdel Rahman
Dr. Rehab O Abdel Rahman is a Professor of Chemical Nuclear Engineering at Hot Laboratories for the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA) in Cairo, Egypt. She worked for more than 25 years in supporting the licensing of radioactive waste management facilities and participated in international projects on the development and implementation of safety cases and safety assessment for those facilities. Her widely published research focuses on radioactive waste management. She supervises post graduate students, teaches undergraduate courses, and supports training activities within EAEA, serves as a member in international scientific committees. She has editorial experience as a managing editor for international journals, guest editor for special issues, and editor of several books, and frequent contributor on the topic of hazardous waste management.