Publication

The standards and regulations for the management, transportation and disposal of radioactive materials have been key to the development of strategies for the handling and disposing of radioactive materials at the “back-end” of the nuclear fuel cycle. This white paper focuses on issues relevant to the disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) from reprocessing and summarizes previous U.S. experience in the attempt to develop a standard and regulations for the geologic disposal of these wastes.