Radioactive waste management: a bibliography for the integrated data base program

Johnson, C.A.

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“…Integration efforts started in the 1980s by building an integrated database system that compiled information on waste generation and treatment, characteristics, inventories, and costs [11]. These efforts were later expanded to include projected inventories of spent fuel and analytical capabilities for the calculation of radioactivity and thermal power based on reported or estimated isotopic compositions [12].…”

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Integration of the Back-end of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: An Overview

Diaz-Maurin

Ewing

2020

MRS Advances

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Recent efforts have been made toward the integration of the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the United States. The back-end integration seeks to address several management challenges: 1) current storage practices are not optimized for transport and disposal; 2) the impact of interim storage on the disposal strategy needs to be evaluated; and 3) the back-end is affected by—and affects—nuclear fuel cycle and energy policy choices. The back-end integration accounts for the various processes of nuclear waste management—onsite storage, consolidated storage, transport and geological disposal. Ideally, these processes should be fully coupled so that benefits and impacts can be assessed at the level of the full fuel cycle. The paper summarizes the causes and consequences of the absence of integration at the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the U.S., critically reviews ongoing integration efforts, and suggests a framework that would support the back-end integration.

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Integration of the Back-end of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: An Overview

Diaz-Maurin

Ewing

2020

MRS Advances

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“…The need for an evaluation of the overall system is generally recognized [5,6]. For instance, efforts have been made for building unified information systems of radioactive materials at the point of waste generation [7][8][9], integrating the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the U.S. [10,11], and conducting multi-criteria performance assessments of various nuclear fuel cycle options [12,13]. However, there has been no formalization of disposal systems from an integrated perspective, beyond the conventional risk-based systems approach of engineering assessments [14][15][16][17][18].…”

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Mission Impossible? Socio-Technical Integration of Nuclear Waste Geological Disposal Systems

Diaz-Maurin

Ewing

2018

Sustainability

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We present a new perspective on geological disposal systems for nuclear waste. Geological disposal systems encompass all the processes required for the permanent isolation of highly-radioactive materials from humans and the biosphere. Radioactive materials requiring geological disposal are created by commercial nuclear power plants, research reactors, and defense-related nuclear activities, such as spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors and high-level waste from reprocessing to reclaim fissile material for weapons. We show that disposal systems are so complex that new methods of representation are required. Despite the common call for a systems approach, a broader perspective is needed to obtain an integrated view of disposal systems. We introduce a conceptual formalism of geological disposal systems based on a multi-scale integrated analysis approach. This ‘metabolic’ representation allows one to account for the technical complexity of disposal systems in relation to their broader societal context. Although the paper is conceptual, the integrated formalism can improve the understanding of the complexity of disposal systems and their policy requirements by connecting technical solutions with societal constraints. However, the paper also reveals the limits to efforts to integrate technical and social dimensions of geological disposal systems into a single formalism.

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Radioactive waste management: a bibliography for the integrated data base program

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Integration of the Back-end of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: An Overview

Integration of the Back-end of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: An Overview

Mission Impossible? Socio-Technical Integration of Nuclear Waste Geological Disposal Systems

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