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.
1. Part 1 : Introduction to nuclear waste management sustainability - p. Page xi 2. Chapter 1 : Sustainability and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry - p. Page xi 3. Chapter 2 : Historical radioactive and nuclear waste management practices: Analysis and insights for the period 1940–1990s - p. Page xi 4. Chapter 3 : Current approaches in managing nuclear wastes: Administrative requirements and technological advances - p. Page xi 5. Part 2 : Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities - p. Page xi 6. Chapter 4 : Spent fuel management: Methodological and technological advances in pre-disposal facilities - p. Page xi 7. Chapter 5 : Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste pre-treatment and treatment practices - p. Page xi 8. Chapter 6 : Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste conditioning and storage practices - p. Page xi 9. Chapter 7 : Decommissioning of the nuclear waste management facilities: Practice and innovative trends toward efficient waste minimization - p. Page xi 10. Chapter 8 : Case studies on the practices and advances in legacy waste management - p. Page xi 11. Chapter 9 : Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities: Disposal facilities - p. Page xi 12. Chapter 10 : Remediation of radioactive contaminated sites: Conventional and innovative trends towards sustainable practice - p. Page xi 13. Part 3 : Future perspectives on nuclear waste management - p. Page xi 14. Chapter 11 : Prospective on the management of innovative power reactors wastes: Infrastructure requirements - p. Page xi 15. Chapter 12 : Prospective on management of nuclear waste containing contaminants of emerging concerns - p. Page xi 16. Chapter 13 : Perspectives on the factors that affect the recycling and reuse of cleared, radioactive, and nuclear materials - p. Page xi 17. Index - p. Page xi
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.
1. Part 1 : Introduction to nuclear waste management sustainability - p. Page xi 2. Chapter 1 : Sustainability and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry - p. Page xi 3. Chapter 2 : Historical radioactive and nuclear waste management practices: Analysis and insights for the period 1940–1990s - p. Page xi 4. Chapter 3 : Current approaches in managing nuclear wastes: Administrative requirements and technological advances - p. Page xi 5. Part 2 : Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities - p. Page xi 6. Chapter 4 : Spent fuel management: Methodological and technological advances in pre-disposal facilities - p. Page xi 7. Chapter 5 : Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste pre-treatment and treatment practices - p. Page xi 8. Chapter 6 : Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste conditioning and storage practices - p. Page xi 9. Chapter 7 : Decommissioning of the nuclear waste management facilities: Practice and innovative trends toward efficient waste minimization - p. Page xi 10. Chapter 8 : Case studies on the practices and advances in legacy waste management - p. Page xi 11. Chapter 9 : Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities: Disposal facilities - p. Page xi 12. Chapter 10 : Remediation of radioactive contaminated sites: Conventional and innovative trends towards sustainable practice - p. Page xi 13. Part 3 : Future perspectives on nuclear waste management - p. Page xi 14. Chapter 11 : Prospective on the management of innovative power reactors wastes: Infrastructure requirements - p. Page xi 15. Chapter 12 : Prospective on management of nuclear waste containing contaminants of emerging concerns - p. Page xi 16. Chapter 13 : Perspectives on the factors that affect the recycling and reuse of cleared, radioactive, and nuclear materials - p. Page xi 17. Index - p. Page xi
