Radioactive Waste Management and Disposal 1985 (Paperback)

Foreword: Part I. Opening Session: 1. Welcoming address; 2. Opening address; 3. The development of nuclear power and the research effort in the Community; 4. Waste disposal in Europe - looking ahead; 5. The role and results of the European Community's R&D work on radioactive waste management; Part II. Treatment and Conditioning Processes, Part One: 6. Chemical precipitation processes for the treatment of low and medium level liquid waste; 7. Electrochemical and ion-exchange processes; 8. Petra, a hot cell facility for waste management studies; 9. Characterisation of spent fuel hulls in dissolution residues; 10. Methods of conditioning waste fuel decladding hulls and disolver residues; 11. Conditioning of alpha waste; Part III. Treatment and Conditioning Processes, Part Two: 12. Plutonium recovery from ∝ - wastes; 13. Alpha monitoring of solid waste; 14. Management of nuclear airborne wastes and tritium retention; 15. Capture and immobilisation of krypton-85; Panel Session: Treatment and conditioning options for low and intermediate level waste; Part IV. Characterisation of Waste Forms: 16. Mechanisms of leaching and corrosions of vitrified radioactive waste forms; 17. Behaviour of vitrified radioactive waste under simulated repository conditions; 18. Radiation thermal and mechanical effects in HLW glass; 19. Behaviour of intermediate-level waste forms in an aqueous environment; 19. Radiation, thermal and mechanical effects on low and medium active conditioned waste; 20. The challenge of quality assurance; Part V. Multi-Barrier Systems: 21. HLW container corrosion and design; 22. The MIRAGE project: actnide and fission product physiochemical behaviour in geological environment; 23. The MIRAGE project: large scale radionuclide transport investigations and integral migration experiments; 24. The geoforecasting approach and long-term prediction of evolutive nuclide migration; 25. Technology for the improvement of shallow land burial; 26. Shallow land burial analysis; Part VI. Disposal in Salt and Clay Formations: 27. In situ-investigations related to salt rock behaviour; 28. Modelling of the thermomechanical behaviour of salt rock; 29. Research programmes in underground experimental facilities; 30. Characterisation and behaviour of argillaceous rocks; 31. Natural evolution of clay formations; Part VII. Disposal in Granite and into the Seabed: 32. Introduction by the session chairman; 33. A study of the characteristics of very deep granite: test in underground laboratories and using boreholes; 34. Associated R&D: radionuclide movement through and mechanical properties of fractured rock; 35. Backfilling and sealing of repositories and access shafts and galleries in clay, granite and salt formations; 36. The feasibility of heat generating waste disposal into deep ocean sedimentary formations; 37. Costs and ways of financing of the geological disposal of radioactive waste; Panel Sessions: Disposal of HLW - Ready for Implementation; Part VIII. Modelling and Performance Analysis: 38. PAGIS, common European methodology for repository performance analysis; 39. Long-term risk assessment of geological disposal: methodology and computer codes; 40. Modelling of radionuclide release and migration; 41. Application of the PAGIS methodology to clay, salt, granite and sub-seabed repositories; Concluding Panel; List of participants; Index of authors.