Strategic considerations for the sustainable remediation of nuclear installations

Mobbs, S.; Orr, Peter; Weber, Inge

doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.07.018

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“…Effective communication with stakeholders is vital to ensure knowledge is transferred between academic and industrial stakeholders most effectively. 118,[155][156][157] Decision support tools (DSTs) are models designed to help achieve this, ensuring stakeholders have access to relevant information in a form convenient to them. Several DSTs over the last decade or so have been produced to supplement the (sustainable) remediation of contaminated land.…”

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Towards the application of electrokinetic remediation for nuclear site decommissioning

Purkis

Warwick

Graham

et al. 2021

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Section: Concluding Remarks and Scaling Upmentioning

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Towards the application of electrokinetic remediation for nuclear site decommissioning

Purkis

Warwick

Graham

et al. 2021

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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“…From the result presented in Table 2 revealed that iroko is more acidic than other and the magnitude order of acidicity is D > A > C > B. The results of present study revealed that the characterization and examination of physicochemical properties of functional components that control is helpful in monitoring, predicting and determination quality of respected area Cipullo et al, 2019;Frick et al, 2019;He et al, 2019;Kalhor et al, 2019;López-Vizcaíno et al, 2019;Mobbs et al, 2019;Rocha et al, 2019;Sivagami et al, 2019;Song et al, 2019;Ye et al, 2019), for the improvement of unwanted condition of contaminant in soil environment.…”

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Characterization and Physicochemical Properties of Wood Sawdust in Niger Area, Nigeria

Ikenyiri¹,

Abowei

Ukpaka

et al. 2019

SSRN Journal

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Investigation was carried out to examine the characterization and physicochemical properties of some wood sawdust obtained from Niger Delta Area of Nigeria limited for the purpose of usage as an absorbent for remediation of contaminant in soil environment. Experimental examination was conducted on value, moisture content, bulk density and porosity, iodine number and ash content for the various wood sawdust samples from Obuba and Abura, Opepe/mahogany. The result obtained revealed that the pH value of Obuba red (soft wood) is 5.48, Abura (hard wood) 6.18, opepe/mahogany (hard wood) 5.75 and iroko (soft wood) 5.29, whereas the moisture content value opepe/mahogany and iroko. The result further revealed that the bulk density and the porosity value are as presented, grain volume value are 2.910, 2.475, 1.931, and 2.959, bulk density value are 1.0317, 0.884, 0.2190, 0.4306, 0.5490, and 0.3499 for obuba red, abura, opepe/mahogany and iroko. The iodine number tested demonstrates the following value of 10.20, 6.90, 13.90 and 5:9 and 6.6 for obuba red, abura, opepe/mahogany and iroko. Finally, it was demonstrated that the usefulness of characterization and examination of physicochemical properties of functional components that control and improve the monitoring, predicting and determination of the kinetics values.

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“…Since 2009, over 45,000 downloads of the SuRF‐UK documents have taken place. The “Annex 1” indicators have been influential in the development of further indicator sets for sustainability assessment for remediation and brownfield applications in many countries around the world (Bardos et al, 2018; Bone et al, 2020; Braun et al, 2020; Gruiz et al, 2019; Hou et al, 2018; Huysegoms et al, 2019), in sustainability indicator development in other domains, such as for contaminated agricultural land (Hou et al, 2018), urban farms (Lelièvre & Clérino, 2018) sediments management (Apitz et al, 2017; McNally et al, 2017), landfill mining (Pastre et al, 2018), remediation of nuclear installations (Mobbs et al, 2019), and in developing countries (Odii et al, 2020). Across the various citations of the SuRF‐UK in the published literature a number of observations have been made, as summarized in Bardos et al (2018).…”

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Sustainability assessment framework and indicators developed by SuRF‐UK for land remediation option appraisal

Bardos

Thomas

Smith

et al. 2020

Remediation Journal

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The scale of land-contamination problems, and of the responses to them, makes achieving sustainability in contaminated land remediation an important objective. The Sustainable Remediation Forum in the UK (SuRF-UK) was established in 2007 to support more sustainable remediation practices in the UK. The prevailing international consensus is that risk assessment is the most rational approach for determining remediation needs and urgency. Sustainability in this context is related to the effective delivery of whatever risk management is necessary to protect human health or the wider environment. SuRF-UK suggests that decisions made at the project planning stage, and also in the choice of remediation approach used to reach particular objectives decided upon, are both opportunities for sustainability gain. In 2011, SuRF-UK issued a set of wide-ranging indicators to support sustainability assessments made during project planning and remediation option appraisal. This advice was reviewed over 2018-2020 and new guidance on process and indicators has been released. Within this guidance, SuRF-UK has provided a checklist of possible sustainability indicators/criteria that can be used to benchmark the scope of sustainability assessment for remediation projects. These indicators are divided into 15 overarching ("headline") categories, divided in a balanced way across the three elements of sustainability: environmental (emissions to air, soil and ground conditions, groundwater and surface water, ecology, and natural resources and waste); social (human health and safety, ethics and equity, neighborhoods and locality, communities and community involvement, and uncertainty and evidence); and economic (direct economic costs and benefits, indirect economic costs and benefits, employment and employment capital, induced economic costs and benefits, and project lifespan and flexibility). The majority of this study explains these categories and their various considerations in more depth and provides the supporting rationale that led to their inclusion in the revised SuRF-UK guidance.

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Strategic considerations for the sustainable remediation of nuclear installations

Cited by 12 publications

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Towards the application of electrokinetic remediation for nuclear site decommissioning

Towards the application of electrokinetic remediation for nuclear site decommissioning

Characterization and Physicochemical Properties of Wood Sawdust in Niger Area, Nigeria

Sustainability assessment framework and indicators developed by SuRF‐UK for land remediation option appraisal

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