An international spent nuclear fuel storage facility : exploring a Russian site as a prototype : proceedings of an international workshop / Glenn E. Schweitzer and A. Chelsea Sharber, editors ; Committee on the Scientific Aspects of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility in Russia, Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council to the National Academies ; in cooperation with Russian Academy of Sciences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Scientific Aspects of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility in Russia.

Contributor:

Schweitzer, Glenn E., 1930-2023.

Sharber, A. Chelsea.

Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spent reactor fuels--Storage--Russia (Federation)--Congresses.

Spent reactor fuels.

Spent reactor fuels--Storage--Environmental aspects--Russia (Federation)--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As part of a long-standing collaboration on nuclear nonproliferation, the National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a joint workshop in Moscow in 2003 on the scientific aspects of an international radioactive disposal site in Russia. The passage of Russian laws permitting the importation and storage of high-level radioactive material (primarily spent nuclear fuel from reactors) has engendered interest from a number of foreign governments, including the U.S., in exploring the possibility of transferring material to Russia on a temporary or permanent basis. The workshop focused on the environmental aspects of the general location and characteristics of a possible storage site, transportation to and within the site, containers for transportation and storage, inventory and accountability, audits and inspections, and handling technologies.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Preface

Contents

Opening Remarks

HANDLING SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL- INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

IAEA Activities in Nuclear Spent Fuel Management

Fyodor F. Sokolov, Aleksey E. Lebedev, and Kosaku Fukuda*

Analysis of U.S. Experience with Spent Fuel

John F. Ahearne

Problems of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Storage Site Selection

M. I. Solonin

Feasibility of Transmutation of Radioactive Elements

Sekazi K. Mtingwa

The High-Level Waste Disposal Technology Development Program in Korea

Jongwon Choi

The Use of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors for Effectively Reprocessing Plutonium and Minor Actinides

V. I. Matveev, V. A. Yeliseev, and Ye. V. Poplavskaya

SITE SELECTION FOR SPENT FUEL STORAGE AND DISPOSAL OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE

Site Selection for Spent Fuel Storage and Disposal of High-Level Waste: Experience of European Countries

Charles McCombie

The Private Fuel Limited Liability Company National Spent Fuel Site

John D. Parkyn

Experience of Japan

Koji Nagano

The Current Status of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Korea

Hyun-Soo Park and Jongwon Choi

Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste: International Experience

Michael E. Wangler and Ronald B. Pope

Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety During the Transport of Radioactive Materials in Russia

Aleksandr M. Agapov

PROBLEMS IN ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONAL STORAGE FACILITY FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN RUSSIA

Creating an Infrastructure for Managing Spent Nuclear Fuel

K. G. Kudinov

Current Status of Government Regulation of Activities Associated with the Import of Spent Nuclear Fuel into the Russian Federation

A. M. Dmitriev

Return to the Russian Federation of Irradiated Fuel Assemblies from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Aleksey E. Lebedev.

Investment and International Aspects of the Problem of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management

Vitaly P. Keondjian and Michael A. Zhdanov

Creation of an Underground Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel near the City of Zheleznogorsk (Eastern Siberia)

Ye. B. Anderson, Ye. F. Lyubtseva, V. G. Savonenkov, S. I. Shabalev, and N. L. Alekseev

Conditions for the Creation of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near the Priargunsk Mining- Chemical Production Association (City of Krasnokamensk, Chita Oblast)

Vasily I. Velichkin, V. A. Petrov, V. F. Golovin, and V. A. Ovseichuk

UTILIZATION OF HIGH-LEVEL WASTE

Types of High-Level Radioactive Wastes Formed as a Result of Dry Methods of Spent Fuel Regeneration and Technologies for Their Management

Valentin B. Ivanov

Chemical Treatment of High-Level Waste for Utilization

Boris F. Myasoedov

Immobilization of High-Level Waste: Analysis of Appropriate Synthetic Waste Forms

S. V. Yudintsev

Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes from the Mayak Production Association and Plans for the Creation of an Underground Laboratory

Yu. V. Glagolenko

Creation of Underground Laboratories at the Mining-Chemical Complex and at Mayak to Study the Suitability of Sites for Underground Isolation of Radioactive Wastes

Tatyana A. Gupalo

Concluding Observations

Milton Levenson

APPENDIXES

A Workshop Agenda

B Environmental Effects of Radiation in the Russian Federation

V. V. Kutsenko

C Geochemistry of Actinides During the Long-Term Storage and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Nikolay P. Laverov, Vasily I. Velichkin, B. I. Omelyanenko, and S. V. Yudintsev.

Notes:

"Interacademy workshop of international experts on the specific issues relevant to the establishment and operation of a storage facility was held in Moscow on May 14-15, 2003"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610742257

9780309181181

0309181186

9781280742255

1280742259

9780309551540

0309551544

OCLC:

70143329