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Management of Radioactive Wastes

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Abstract

The radioactivity is a natural phenomenon and natural sources of radiation present in the environment. Radiation and radioactive substances have many useful applications, ranging from power generation to medical, industrial, and agricultural applications. At the end of their use, the radioactive elements containing in the used materials (radioactive waste) cannot be destroyed by any known chemical or mechanical process. Their final destruction is the fact either of a transformation into stable isotopes by radioactive decay or of a nuclear transmutation under the effect of the bombardment of atomic particles. The management of the radioactive waste, therefore, consists of controlling radioactive waste and maintaining it at a tolerable level in order to control the risks presented to man and his environment. The stakes of the management of radioactive waste are therefore of several kinds, technical and scientific, but also political and ethical; the fact that certain wastes generated pose safety problems in the very long term because their harmfulness can extend over very long periods of time.

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Abbreviations

CENM:

Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de la Maâmora

CGEM:

General Confederation of Moroccan Companies

CNEN:

Conseil National de l’Energie Nucléaire

CNESTEN:

Centre National de l’Energie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires

CNRP:

Centre National de Radioprotection

CNSN:

Commission Nationale de Sûreté Nucléaire

DSRS:

Disused sealed radioactive sources

EW:

Exempt waste

IAEA:

International Atomic Energy Agency

LLW:

Low level waste

MEMEE:

Ministère de l’Energie, des Mines, de l’Eau et de l’Environnement (Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment)

MoH:

Ministry of Health (Ministère de la Santé)

NORM:

Naturally occurring radioactive materials

NRSSA:

Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security Agency (Agence de Sûreté et de Sécurité Nucléaires et Radiologiques)

QMS:

Quality Management System

RAIS:

Regulatory Authority Information System

RW:

Radioactive waste

RWM:

Radioactive Waste Management

SNF:

Spent nuclear fuel

TENORM:

Technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials

TSO:

Technical support organization

VLLW:

Very low level waste

VSLW:

Very short lived waste

WHO:

World Health Organization

WMO:

Waste Management Organization

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  1. Laboratory of Agro resources Polymers and Process engineering (LAPPE), Team of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Faculty of sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco

    Bouchra El Hilal, Mohammed Hussein Rafeq Khudhair & Ahmed El Harfi

  2. Operation Unit of the Radioactive Waste, Center of Nuclear Studies of Maamora (CENM) (CNESTEN), Kenitra, 1382, 10001, Morocco

    Bouchra El Hilal

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    Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain Ph. D

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El Hilal, B., Khudhair, M., El Harfi, A. (2018). Management of Radioactive Wastes. In: Hussain, C. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Materials Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_83-2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_83-2

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