Nuclear Waste Management Facilities

Advances, Environmental Impacts, and Future Prospects

Rehab O Abdel Rahman

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780323960083
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323960076
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Thermodynamics
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Nuclear Waste Management Facilities: Advances, Environmental Impacts, and Future Prospects examines best practices and recent trends in improving nuclear safety and reducing the negative environmental impacts of nuclear waste. With 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 sections, Part One introduces the reader to the safety and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry. Part Two reviews recent technological and methodological approaches to enhancing safety, as well as reducing the carbon footprint of both individual processes and integrated facilities. Topics covered include waste processing, transmutation and decommissioning. Part Three consider potential management schemes for special waste from innovative sources, and wastes that contain emerging contaminants, including waste recycling opportunities. Nuclear Waste Management Facilities: Advances, Environmental Impacts, and Future Prospects 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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the author
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Part 1 : Introduction to nuclear waste management sustainability
• Chapter 1 : Sustainability and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry
• Chapter 2 : Historical radioactive and nuclear waste management practices: Analysis and insights for the period 1940–1990s
• Chapter 3 : Current approaches in managing nuclear wastes: Administrative requirements and technological advances
• 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
• Chapter 5 : Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste pre-treatment and treatment practices
• Chapter 6 : Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste conditioning and storage practices
• Chapter 7 : Decommissioning of the nuclear waste management facilities: Practice and innovative trends toward efficient waste minimization
• Chapter 8 : Case studies on the practices and advances in legacy waste management
• Chapter 9 : Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities: Disposal facilities
• Chapter 10 : Remediation of radioactive contaminated sites: Conventional and innovative trends towards sustainable practice
• Part 3 : Future perspectives on nuclear waste management
• Chapter 11 : Prospective on the management of innovative power reactors wastes: Infrastructure requirements
• Chapter 12 : Prospective on management of nuclear waste containing contaminants of emerging concerns
• Chapter 13 : Perspectives on the factors that affect the recycling and reuse of cleared, radioactive, and nuclear materials
• Index
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