Radioactive waste Radioactive waste Borsele is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Borsele"
The COGEMA La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has over half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity. It has been in operation since 1976, and has a capacity of about 1700 tonnes per year. ...more on Wikipedia about "COGEMA La Hague site"
Dry cask storage is a method of storing high-level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in the spent fuel pool for at least one year. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dry cask storage"
DUCRETE is a version of concrete investigated for use for construction of casks for storage of radioactive waste. It is a composite material with depleted uranium dioxide aggregate used instead of conventional gravel and a Portland cement binder. ...more on Wikipedia about "DUCRETE"
Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Sweden, and also the site of the Swedish spent nuclear fuel repository. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant"
A fuel element failure is a rupture in a nuclear reactor that allows the nuclear fuel or fission products in the form of dissolved radioisotopes or hot particles to enter the reactor coolant or storage water. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fuel element failure"
Fuel fleas are microscopic hot particles of new or spent nuclear fuel. While small, they tend to be intensely radioactive. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fuel fleas" Can you feel it? http://www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia
The Goiânia accident was an incident of radioactive contamination in central Brazil that killed several individuals and injured many others. On September 13, 1987 an old radiation source was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, the capital of the central Brazilian state of Goiás. It was subsequently handled by several people, causing serious contamination and resulting in several deaths. The incident is considered one of the worst accidents involving the improper disposal and handling of radioactive material. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goiânia accident"
The Goshutes are a Native American tribe that once numbered 20,000. Only 500 remain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goshute"
High level Waste (HLW) arises from the use of uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor and nuclear weapons processing. It contains the fission products and transuranic elements generated in the reactor core. It is highly radioactive and hot. HLW accounts for over 95% of the total radioactivity produced in the process of nuclear electricity generation. ...more on Wikipedia about "High level waste"
A hot particle is a small, highly radioactive object, with significant content of radionuclides. Hot particles are usually released into the environment during a nuclear accident or when high-level radioactive waste is improperly handled, and are the principal hazard of the nuclear fallout from nuclear explosions. They are an important component of radioactive contamination. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hot particle"
Induced radioactivity is when a previously stable material has been made radioactive by exposure to radiation. Radioactive decay of an atom releases one or more particles or high frequency electromagnetic radiation, or both. If the particle hits a non-radioactive atom nearby, it may join with the nucleus to produce a different element or a different isotope of the same element. This new atom may not be stable, making it radioactive. The probability of the particle becoming part of the nucleus depends on what type of particle it is, the element and which isotope it is combining with and the speed of the particle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Induced radioactivity"
KBS-3 (an abbreviation of kärnbränslesäkerhet, nuclear fuel safety) is a technology for disposal of high-level radioactive waste developed in Sweden by Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB by appointment from Statens Strålskyddsinstitut (the radiation protection agency). ...more on Wikipedia about "KBS-3"
Lake Karachay ( Russian Cyrillic: Карачай; sometimes spelled Karachai) is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in eastern Russia. Starting in 1951 ** the Soviet Union used Karachay as a dumping site for radioactive waste from Mayak, the nearby nuclear waste storage and reprocessing facility, located near the town of Ozyorsk (then called Chelyabinsk-40). ...more on Wikipedia about "Lake Karachay"
Low-level waste (LLW) is a term used to describe nuclear waste that does not fit into the categorical definitions for high-level waste (HLW), spent nuclear fuel (SNF), transuranic waste (TRU), or certain byproduct materials known as 11e(2) wastes, such as uranium mill tailings. In essence, it is a definition by exclusion, and LLW is that category of radioactive wastes that do not fit into the other categories. If LLW is mixed with hazardous wastes, then it has a special status as Mixed Low-Level Waste (MLLW) and must satisfy treatment, storage, and disposal regulations both as LLW and as hazardous waste. ...more on Wikipedia about "Low level waste"
Mayak is the name of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant between the towns of Kasli and Kyshtym (also transliterated Kishtym or Kishtim) 150 km northwest of Chelyabinsk in Russia. The plant is in the Ozersk central administrative territorial unit, formerly known as Chelyabinsk-40, later as Chelyabinsk-65, and part of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mayak"
Mixed waste is defined in the United States as waste containing radioactive material and hazardous waste as defined in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). ...more on Wikipedia about "Mixed waste"
Mixed oxide, or MOX fuel, is a blend of plutonium and natural uranium or depleted uranium which behaves similarly (though not identically) to the enriched uranium feed for which most nuclear reactors were designed. MOX fuel is an alternative to Low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in the light water reactors which predominate nuclear power generation. MOX also provides a means of burning weapons-grade plutonium (from military sources) to produce electricity. ...more on Wikipedia about "MOX fuel"
The Non-Proliferation Trust (NPT) is a U.S. Not-for-profit corporation that advocates storing 10,000 tons of U.S. nuclear waste in Russia for a fee of $15 billion paid to the Russian government and $250 million paid to a fund for Russian orphans. The group is headed by Admiral Daniel Murphy. This proposal has been endorsed by the Russian atomic energy ministry, MinAtom, which estimates that the proposal could eventually generate $150 billion in revenue for Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Non-Proliferation Trust"
Nuclear reprocessing separates any usable elements (e.g., uranium and plutonium) from fission products and other materials in used nuclear reactor fuels. Usually the goal is to place these elements in new mixed oxide fuel (MOX), but some reprocessing is done to obtain plutonium for weapons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear reprocessing"
Ocean floor disposal is a method of sequestering radioactive waste in ocean floor sediment where it is unlikely to be disturbed either geologically or by human activity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ocean floor disposal"
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Pondcrete is a mixture of cement and sludge. Its role is to immobilize hazardous waste and in some cases lower-level radioactive waste in the form of solid material. Its name originates from the evaporation ponds where the sludge is being concentrated. It is a form of mixed waste. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pondcrete"
Radioactive contamination is the uncontrolled distribution of radioactive material in a given environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Radioactive contamination"
Radioactive waste is waste material containing radioactive chemical elements that does not have a practical purpose. It is sometimes the product of a nuclear process, such as nuclear fission. The majority of radioactive waste in mass and volume terms is low level waste which is often items such as used protective clothing which is only slightly contaminated. ...more on Wikipedia about "Radioactive waste"
Red oil is defined as a substance of varying composition formed when an organic solution, typically tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP, an agent used for extracting heavy metals in nuclear reprocessing plants) and its diluent, comes in contact with concentrated nitric acid at a temperature above 120°C. ...more on Wikipedia about "Red oil"
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