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Presentation of ANDRA research at Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory, in Bure. The Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs (French pronunciation: [aʒɑ̃s nasjɔnal puʁ la ʒɛstjɔ̃ de deʃɛ ʁadjoaktif], ANDRA), or National agency for the management of radioactive waste is a 'public institution of an industrial and commercial nature' charged with the ...
The states that ratify the Convention agree to be governed by the convention's provisions on the storage of nuclear waste, including transport and the location, design, and operation of storage facilities. [citation needed] The Convention implements meetings of the state parties that review the states' implementation of the convention.
High-level waste is the highly radioactive waste material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly radioactive material that is determined, consistent with existing law, to require permanent ...
Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons reprocessing. [1]
This draft Article Act contained an Article 3 Act on the Establishment of a Federal Office for Nuclear Waste Management (German: Gesetz über die Errichtung eines Bundesamtes für kerntechnische Entsorgung, BfkEG) with only three paragraphs. In the course of the legislative process, Section 1 of the Act was supplemented and transitional ...
Tank AX-101, which is not suspected of having leaked, was built in the mid-1960s using carbon steel and reinforced concrete. Waste was added to the four AX tanks from 1969 to 1980.
In 1982 the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Management Executive (NIREX) was established with responsibility for disposing of long-lived nuclear waste [77] and in 2006 a Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recommended geologic disposal 200–1,000 metres (660–3,280 ft ...
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