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Between the collection of nuclear waste material, no longer useful for practical applications, and the final disposal of the material until complete radioactive decay, a great number of operations have to be performed. Omitting all transport and storage operations, which fundamentally leave the material unchanged, two major transformation categories can be distinguished. The first category aims at the chemical stabilisation and volumetric minimisation of the waste mass and is commonly called waste treatment. Frequently adopted treatment operations include sorting, cutting, incinerating, compacting, etc. These operations are usually followed by complementary operations aimed at giving the waste the required properties necessary to withstand transport manipulations, intermediate storage for some limited time (10 to 50 years), further transportation and final disposal, presumably to a shallow disposal site or a geological repository. This second category of operations is commonly defined as conditioning and it will be the subject of the present paper.
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Trauwaert, E. (1998). Waste Conditioning Methods: Economical and Ecological Impact. In: Stenhouse, M.J., Kirko, V.I. (eds) Defence Nuclear Waste Disposal in Russia: International Perspective. NATO ASI Series, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5112-2_4
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