Objective
The need for safety assessments of waste disposal stems not only from the increasing implementation of regulations requiring the assessment of environmental effects but also from the more general need to justify decisions on protection requirements. It is the overall aim of this study to improve the predictive modelling capacity for post-disposal safety assessments of land-based disposal facilities through the development and testing of a comprehensive yet practicable assessment framework. Within this project the disposal of toxic, radioactive and mixed hazardous wastes is considered.
Within this project the disposal of toxic, radioactive and mixed hazardous wastes is considered. The term toxic wastes is interpreted broadly to include any kind of liquid or solid nonradioactive waste which could give rise to detrimental environmental effects, postdisposal. The following programme items have been successfully completed:
the review of the different waste types and comparison of the concepts and methods adopted for their land based disposal;
the review of the criteria adopted for authorizing disposals, in so far as they relate to postdisposal environmental impact;
the review of the different assessment methods which have been used to assess postdisposal environmental impacts and initial evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the assessment methods;
consideration of the use of scenario analysis to determine how postdisposal impacts might arise.
Work programme:
The work programme is being undertaken jointly by Intera, United Kingdom and Ciemat, Spain. It has:
- to review the different waste types and to compare and contrast concepts and methods adopted for their land based disposal.
- to review the kinds of criteria adopted for authorising disposals, in so far as they relate to post-disposal environmental impact.
- to review the different assessment methods which have been used to assess post-disposal environmental impacts and to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of alternative assessment methods.
- to identify the types of post-disposal impact which might arise and use a scenario analysis, according to a well defined procedure, to determine how such impacts may arise
- to develop a practicable framework for assessment of post-disposal safety for disposal of wastes to land-based facilities taking full account of existing methodological developments.
- to test the application of the proposed framework on a representative set of example disposals. Illustrations will reflect realistic problems of environmental assessment.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies nuclear engineering nuclear waste management
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management
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RG9 1AT Henley-on-Thames
United Kingdom
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