Title: Radioactive waste management technologies used in rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated facilities and areas at the RRC 'Kurchatov Institute' site

Authors: V.G. Volkov, G.G. Gorodetsky, Yu.A. Zverkov, A.V. Lemus, O.P. Ivanov, S.G. Semienov, A.V. Chesnokov, A.D. Shisha

Addresses: RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia. ' RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia. ' RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia. ' RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia. ' RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia. ' RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia. ' RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia. ' RRC 'Kurchatov Institute', 123182 Moscow, Russia

Abstract: Activities on rehabilitation of eleven temporary radwaste repositories are currently underway at the RRC |Kurchatov Institute|. Technologies used for exploratory drilling of repositories, their radiation survey, cleaning fill-up soil from the repository ceilings and opening the ceilings, RW extraction, sorting and packing in containers are presented. The radiation situation at the repository site as a whole was monitored with the help of a new gamma locator. These activities resulted in extraction and removal from the Kurchatov Institute site for long-term storage of more than 600 m³ of the waste with the total activity over 3.8 × 10¹²Bq (about 105 Ci).

Keywords: rehabilitation activity; radioactive contamination; decontamination; specific activity; radioactive waste processing; dose rate measurements; radioactive waste management; Russia; nuclear waste storage; nuclear energy; nuclear power; nuclear technology; nuclear safety; radiation safety.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNEST.2006.010654

International Journal of Nuclear Energy Science and Technology, 2006 Vol.2 No.1/2, pp.127 - 143

Published online: 10 Aug 2006 *

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