Nuclear Waste Management Facilities

Nuclear Waste Management Facilities examines best practices and recent trends in improving nuclear safety and reducing the negative environmental impacts of nuclear waste. With a strong emphasis on regulatory requirements, this reference is essential for designing new integrated waste management practices, using lessons learned from historical and current practices. Divided into three key parts, Part One introduces the reader to the safety and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry and the historical and current nuclear waste management practices. Part Two reviews recent technological and methodological approaches to enhancing safety, as well as reducing the environmental impacts of both individual processes and integrated facilities. Topics covered include spent fuel and radioactive waste management, legacy waste management, remediation, and decommissioning. Part Three considers some prospective for the safe management of waste from innovative reactors, and wastes that contain emerging contaminants, including waste recycling opportunities. Nuclear Waste Management Facilities is a crucial tool needed to implement the safest and most environmentally considerate best practices within nuclear waste management facilities.

Dr. Rehab O Abdel Rahman is a Professor of Chemical Nuclear Engineering at Hot Laboratories for the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA) in Cairo, Egypt. She worked for more than 25 years in supporting the licensing of radioactive waste management facilities and participated in international projects on the development and implementation of safety cases and safety assessment for those facilities. Her widely published research focuses on radioactive waste management. She supervises post graduate students, teaches undergraduate courses, and supports training activities within EAEA, serves as a member in international scientific committees. She has editorial experience as a managing editor for international journals, guest editor for special issues, and editor of several books, and frequent contributor on the topic of hazardous waste management.

Part 1 Introduction to Nuclear Waste Management Sustainability 1. Sustainability and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry 2. Historical radioactive and nuclear waste management practices: Analysis and insights for the period 1940-1990s 3. Current approaches in managing nuclear wastes: Administrative requirements and technological advances Part 2 Advances to Enhance Safety and Reduce the Impact of Nuclear Waste Management Facilities 4. Spent fuel management: Methodological and technological advances in pre-disposal facilities 5. Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste pre-treatment and treatment practices 6. Advances toward sustainable radioactive waste conditioning and storage practices 7. Decommissioning of the nuclear waste management facilities: Practice and innovative trends toward efficient waste minimization 8. Case studies on the practices and advances in legacy waste management 9. Advances to enhance safety and reduce the impacts of nuclear waste management facilities 10. Remediation of radioactive contaminated sites: Conventional and innovative trends toward sustainable practice 11. Prospective on the management of innovative power reactors wastes: infrastructure requirements Part 3 Future Perspectives on Nuclear Waste Management 12. Prospective on the management of nuclear waste containing contaminants of emerging concerns 13. Perspectives on the factors that affect the recycling and reuse of cleared, radioactive and nuclear materials