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Estimation of Global Inventories of Radioactive Waste and other Radioactive Materials

AuthorIAEA
6-01-5-50-81.pdf
DateJune 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