Waste management plans for ITER

Abstract ITER will produce radioactive waste during its operation (arising from the replacement of components and from process and housekeeping waste) and during decommissioning. The waste concerns components that are activated by neutrons of energies up to 14 MeV, and are contaminated by activated corrosion products, activated dust and tritium. Even if the nuclear waste production will start only with the deuterium-deuterium phase, provisions have to be taken now with the design of the ITER facilities that will be used for the treatment and interim storage of the waste, in order to demonstrate that all the ITER waste will be safely manageable with the existing outlets. This demonstration also needs to be provided to the French regulator.