Radioactive waste management and contaminated site clean-up : processes, technologies and international experience

Part 1 Background and principles of radioactive waste (RAW) management: Fundamentals of radioactive waste (RAW): Science, sources, classification and management strategies Radioactive waste (RAW) categories, characterisation and processing route selection International safety standards for radioactive waste (RAW) management and remediation of contaminated sites Technical solutions for the management of radioactive waste (RAW): Overview and methods of selection Irradiated nuclear fuel management: Resource versus waste Radioactive waste (RAW) conditioning, immobilisation and encapsulation processes and technologies: Overview and advances Assessing and modelling the performance of nuclear waste and associated packages for long term management Remediation of radioactively contaminated sites and management of the resulting waste Safety and risk assessment of radioactive wastes and contaminated sites. Part 2 Current international situation: Experience of radioactive waste (RAW) management and contaminated site clean-up Russia Ukraine Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Poland Nordic countries Germany France England and Wales Scotland United States Canada South Africa Republic of Korea China Japan Fukushima: The current situation and future plans. Part 3 Clean-up of sites contaminated by weapons programmes: Management of radioactive waste (RAW) from nuclear weapons programmes Modeling and strategy approaches for assessing radionuclide contamination from underground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada, USA Remote monitoring of former underground nuclear explosion sites predominantly in the former USSR.