Proposed Management Procedure for Low-Level Radioactive Wastes, from Italian Facitlities

Abstract

Radioactive wastes currently product in many research activities, from a technological point of view, do not pose so many management problems as those of nuclear power plants, owing to their relatively small amounts and low activity levels, however their management and disposal give rise to some important radiation protection problems. Furthermore, in Italy, at moment, a subsurface place for disposal of nuclear low-level wastes is not


available, unlike the other European Countries. Reviewing the census-data concerning radioactive wastes, produced by C.N.R. (National Research Council) laboratories, the authors suggest a feasible and adequate procedure for such wastes management, taking into account the correct procedures in relation to radioprotection


implication and in according to Italian current regulation. The proposed procedure takes into account the different origins of waste products, their amounts and their geographic production place, owing to the reason that C.N.R. laboratories are spread in whole national territory.