NEA Joint Workshop on the Multifactor Optimisation of Predisposal Management of Radioactive Waste
From February 10-14, 2020, a Joint Meeting of the OECD NEA on Multifactor Optimization of RW Management Activities before Disposal was held at the conference Center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris, France).
The meeting was attended by more than 115 specialists from 24 countries: national regulatory authorities, decommissioning operators, waste producers and recyclers, environmental and research organizations, etc. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the optimization of national radioactive waste management programs from various points of view, including an integrated approach to radioactive waste management.
Angelika Haperskaya, Senior Manager of the Project Office of Rosatom State Corporation, co-founder of the Women's Association of the Nuclear Industry Foundation, presented the report "Radioactive Waste from Advanced Technologies of SNF Processing in Russia" as part of the agenda of the meeting.
The report shows promising Russian technologies for closing the nuclear fuel cycle to reduce the volume and level of danger of radioactive waste (RW) sent for disposal. Technologies include recycling of nuclear materials, fractionation of high-level waste, transmutation of the most dangerous and long-lived components of high-level waste - minor actinides in fast neutron reactors, liquid salt reactors.
