As part of a long-standing collaboration on nuclear nonproliferation, the National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a joint workshop in Moscow in 2003 on the scientific aspects of an international radioactive disposal site in Russia. The passage of Russian laws permitting the importation and storage of high-level radioactive material (primarily spent nuclear fuel from reactors) has engendered interest from a number of foreign governments, including the U.S., in exploring the possibility of transferring material to Russia on a temporary or permanent basis. The workshop focused on the environmental aspects of the general location and characteristics of a possible storage site, transportation to and within the site, containers for transportation and storage, inventory and accountability, audits and inspections, and handling technologies.
- FrontMatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Opening Remarks
- HANDLING SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL— INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
- IAEA Activities in Nuclear Spent Fuel Management--Fyodor F. Sokolov, Aleksey E. Lebedev, and Kosaku Fukuda*
- Analysis of U.S. Experience with Spent Fuel--John F. Ahearne
- Problems of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Storage Site Selection--M. I. Solonin
- Feasibility of Transmutation of Radioactive Elements--Sekazi K. Mtingwa
- The High-Level Waste Disposal Technology Development Program in Korea--Jongwon Choi
- The Use of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors for Effectively Reprocessing Plutonium and Minor Actinides--V. I. Matveev, V. A. Yeliseev, and Ye. V. Poplavskaya
- SITE SELECTION FOR SPENT FUEL STORAGE AND DISPOSAL OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE
- Site Selection for Spent Fuel Storage and Disposal of High-Level Waste: Experience of European Countries--Charles McCombie
- The Private Fuel Limited Liability Company National Spent Fuel Site--John D. Parkyn
- Experience of Japan--Koji Nagano
- The Current Status of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Korea--Hyun-Soo Park and Jongwon Choi
- Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: International Experience--Michael E. Wangler and Ronald B. Pope
- Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety During the Transport of Radioactive Materials in Russia--Aleksandr M. Agapov
- PROBLEMS IN ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONAL STORAGE FACILITY FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN RUSSIA
- Creating an Infrastructure for Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel--K. G. Kudinov
- Current Status of Government Regulation of Activities Associated with the Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel into the Russian Federation--A. M. Dmitriev
- Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan--Aleksey E. Lebedev
- Investment and International Aspects of the Problem of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management--Vitaly P. Keondjian and Michael A. Zhdanov
- Creation of an Underground Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel near the City of Zheleznogorsk (Eastern Siberia)--Ye. B. Anderson, Ye. F. Lyubtseva, V. G. Savonenkov, S. I. Shabalev, and N. L. Alekseev
- Conditions for the Creation of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near the Priargunsk Mining- Chemical Production Association (City of Krasnokamensk, Chita Oblast)--Vasily I. Velichkin, V. A. Petrov, V. F. Golovin, and V. A. Ovseichuk
- UTILIZATION OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE
- Types of High-Level Radioactive Wastes Formed as a Result of Dry Methods of Spent Fuel Regeneration and Technologies for Their Management--Valentin B. Ivanov
- Chemical Treatment of High-Level Waste for Utilization--Boris F. Myasoedov
- Immobilization of High-Level Waste: Analysis of Appropriate Synthetic Waste Forms--S. V. Yudintsev
- Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes from the Mayak Production Association and Plans for the Creation of an Underground Laboratory--Yu. V. Glagolenko
- Creation of Underground Laboratories at the Mining-Chemical Complex and at Mayak to Study the Suitability of Sites for Underground Isolation of Radioactive Wastes--Tatyana A. Gupalo
- Concluding Observations--Milton Levenson
- APPENDIXES
- A Workshop Agenda
- B Environmental Effects of Radiation in the Russian Federation--V. V. Kutsenko
- C Geochemistry of Actinides During the Long-Term Storage and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel--Nikolay P. Laverov, Vasily I. Velichkin, B. I. Omelyanenko, and S. V. Yudintsev
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