Options for Radioactive Waste Management that have been

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LIST OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION 1

2 RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT PRIOR TO NIREX’S FORMATION 2

3 DISPOSAL TO SEA 3

4 NEAR-SURFACE DISPOSAL 6

5 DEEP GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL 8

5.1 Conceptual designs for deep repositories considered in Nirex Report 71 9

5.2 Direct Access Offshore Shaft System 11

5.3 Drained burial above the water table 13

5.4 Dounreay and Sellafield investigations 14

5.5 The consequences of the RCF decision 15

5.6 Co-disposal 16

5.7 Deep borehole, high-temperature disposal of high-level waste 17

6 LONG-TERM SURFACE STORAGE 18

6.1 Use of conventional stores for long-term storage 19

6.2 Monolith stores 20

7 PARTITIONING AND TRANSMUTATION 21

8 CONCLUDING REMARKS 22

9 REFERENCES 23