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Estimation of Global Inventories of Radioactive Waste and other Radioactive Materials
Author | IAEA |
6-01-5-50-81.pdf | |
Date | June 2008 |
Classification | 6.01.5.50/81 (WASTE - RADIOACTIVE WASTE GENERAL) |
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IAEA-TECDOC-1591 Estimation of Global Inventories of Radioactive Waste and Other Radioactive Materials June 2007 IAEA-TECDOC-1591 Estimation of Global Inventories of Radioactive Waste and Other Radioactive Materials June 2008 The originating Section of this publication in the IAEA was: Waste and Environment Safety Section International Atomic Energy Agency Wagramer Strasse 5 P.O. Box 100 A-1400 Vienna, Austria ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL INVENTORIES OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND OTHER RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS IAEA, VIENNA, 2008 IAEA-TECDOC-1591 ISBN 978–92–0–105608–5 ISSN 1011–4289 © IAEA, 2008 Printed by the IAEA in Austria June 2008 FOREWORD A variety of nuclear activities have been carried out in the second part of the twentieth century for different purposes. Initially the emphasis was on military applications, but with the passage of time the main focus of nuclear activities has shifted to peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to the use of radioactive material in industry, medicine and research. Regardless of the objectives, the nuclear activities generate radioactive waste. It was considered worthwhile to produce a set of worldwide data that could be assessed to evaluate the legacy of the nuclear activities performed up to the transition between the twentieth and the twenty first century. The assessment tries to cover the inventory of all the human produced radioactive material that can be considered to result from both military and civilian applications. This has caused remarkable difficulties since muc