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Сигнальный экземпляр монографии «Особые радиоактивные отходы»

An advance copy of the "Special radioactive waste» is published (in Russian). IBRAE experts M.N. Savkin, M.V. Vedernikova, I.I. Linge, S.S. Utkin, V.I. Dorogov, A.A. Samoilov and D.V. Biryukov have taken part in monograph preparation.

The book describes approaches to classifying RW as special RW and the features of their implementation. Foreign and domestic experience in management of RW accumulated from the nuclear fuel cycle and defense industry is generalized. The characteristics of technical, sanitary and environmental regulatory requirements for safe RW management are given. The following issues are addressed: current legal and regulatory basis to form the Unified State System of RW management; the results of initial RW registration; methodical approaches to classifying RW as specific RW; medium and long term solutions of the problems of radioactive waste management. The results of work on specific RW storage facilities performed under the Federal Target Program "Nuclear and Radiation Safety for 2008 and for the period till 2015" are presented.