Summary and analysis of Russian and international requirements for the safe management of very low level radioactive waste and production waste containing very low active radionuclides

This article gives an overview of Russian legislation and international recommendations on the safe
management regulation of the accumulated very low level radioactive waste (RW), provides the
comparison of Russian and international criteria for RW attribution to this or that class and also
the existing radiation safety requirements. This article also deals with the difficulties in
management of production waste containing radionuclides. Criteria and standards were selected from
international (ICRP and IAEA publications) and Russian (Federal Law on Management of Radioactive
Waste, Government Decree on Radioactive Waste Classification, The Basic Sanitary Rules of Radiation
Safety) documents for comparative analysis. International and Russian criteria for the radioactive
materials attribution to RW and production waste containing radionuclides were compared during the
analysis. A number of radionuclides for which it is necessary to establish such criteria have been
identified. It ...

Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - August 23, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: V N Klochkov, V G Barchukov, E V Klochkova, A A Maksimov and S V Berezin Source Type: research