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Jiang, Bo Tuo, Yan Qiang Jia, Xiao Long Xing, and Xu Zhang. "Environmental Safety and Health Issues Relating to Hazardous Wastes Generated by Chemical Industries." Applied Mechanics and Materials 448-453 (October 2013): 209–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.448-453.209.

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The importance of chemical products in todays society is known, which can increase food production, improve the quality of life and extend the lifespan. However, their dangers are also obvious. In addition, a large number of chemical accidents, that produce chemicals, continue to take place in the chemical industries in spite of the great improvement in the safety management standard of worldwide chemical industries. Such accidents are taking place not only in the developing countries, but also in developed countries, which result in a lot of property loss, death and serious environmental issues with long term negative effects. Therefore, how to live with these substances and how to handle, use and dispose them safely have attracted much attention because chemical safety and risk management of chemicals have formed an international challenge.
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Cayumil, Romina, Rita Khanna, Yuri Konyukhov, Igor Burmistrov, Jumat Beisembekovich Kargin, and Partha Sarathy Mukherjee. "An Overview on Solid Waste Generation and Management: Current Status in Chile." Sustainability 13, no. 21 (October 21, 2021): 11644. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132111644.

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The widespread generation of, ever increasing volumes of and the sustainable management of solid wastes are global issues of great concern. Due to wide variations in composition and associated complexities, significant efforts are required for their collection, processing and environmentally safe disposal in a cost effective manner. An overview of solid wastes is presented in this article with a specific focus on municipal solid wastes and industrial waste from the iron/steelmaking and aluminium industries. Key waste issues such as its sources, compositions, volumes, the factors affecting waste generation and waste processing are first discussed, followed by a further discussion regarding recycling, resource recovery, disposal and the associated environmental impacts. In a special case study, waste generation and management in Chile is presented in greater detail. Detailed information is provided on government initiatives and legislation for integrated solid waste management and its movement towards a circular economy. Measures include regulations on waste management framework which concerns the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes, persistent organic pollutants, the closure of mining activities and installations and restrictions on plastics disposal. With Chile being world’s largest producer of copper, significant efforts for mining waste management, its infrastructure and procedures are being put in place to reduce the environmental impact of the mining sector and its associated waste generation.
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Chowdhary, Anjuman. "Study of knowledge, behaviour and practice of biomedical waste among health personnel." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 5, no. 8 (July 23, 2018): 3330. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20183056.

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Background: Healthcare wastes are of great importance due to its hazardous nature. As World Health Organization (WHO) indicated, some of healthcare wastes are considered the most hazardous and potentially dangerous to human health and pollute the environment. With this background this study was undertaken to assess awareness, behavior and practices healthcare personnel about biomedical waste, its hazards and management.Methods: This one cross-sectional study was conducted at S.V.B.P. hospital associated with L.L.R.M. medical college, Meerut. A total of 291 healthcare personnel who consented for interview were interviewed biomedical waste management rules and observed for biomedical waste management practices by using redesigned and a pretested questionnaire. The data was analysed by using SPSS software.Results: Awareness regarding bio-medical waste management rules was 67% in doctors, 60% in nurses, 57% among lab technicians, but the sanitary staff was not aware about this. Awareness about category of BMW, number, colour coding, disposed content, labelling and cover of waste containers and segregation of waste were more among nurses and lab technicians in comparison to doctors but minimum among sanitary staff. All the respondents (100%) doctors, nurses and lab technicians knew that HIV and Hepatitis B transmitted through Bio medical waste but their awareness regarding Hepatitis C and other diseases was very low. 74% of sanitary Staff did not know that these diseases could be transmitted through bio medical waste.Conclusions: Healthcare facilities should get their healthcare personnel trained from accredited training centers.
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Abaikyzy, Moldir, Lazzat K. Yerkinbayeva, Kulyash N. Aidarkhanova, Gulnar T. Aigarinova, and Nurzhan S. Baimbetov. "The Formation of Land Conservation Principles as the Framework for the Implementation of the Concept of Sustainable Development of Society." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 15, no. 8 (December 22, 2020): 1231–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.150809.

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The development of land legislation in the context of globalisation, the desire of countries to more widely implement global and European standards of environmental policies, as well as the interest in the experience of legislative solutions to problems connected with the design and development of legal institutions in environmental protection in foreign countries, determine the relevance of this study. The purpose of the paper is to identify the main problems of land protection legislation and form on their basis the effective system of environmental regulation, combining administrative and legislative instruments with economic, regulatory and market mechanisms. Analysis of international legal acts is used as the leading research method. Considered the positive experience of legal regulation of the land issue of such democratic states as the USA, Great Britain, and Germany and other developed countries. The authors propose to introduce the Concept for the Protection of Lands from Pollution by Hazardous Substances, as well as the development and adoption of regional and national programs in which a separate section should address issues of land protection from pollution by hazardous substances. The practical significance of the study is determined by the need to integrate the land legislation industry into national environmental legislation.
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Kaithari, Dinesh K., and Mona Al Balushi. "RECOVERY OF GOLD FROM E WASTE." International Journal of Students' Research in Technology & Management 4, no. 3 (December 2, 2016): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/ijsrtm.2016.431.

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E waste production in great amounts and its problems, which challenge the field of waste and environment management stem from the increase in the production of electronic appliances, diversity seeking consumers and perishable products. The disposal of e waste into the environment is hazardous as they contain chemicals. The conventional methods of disposing these e wastes are irrelevant and have an adverse effect on the environmental conditions which is threat to life. Gold is one of the precious metals that can be extracted from the e waste. The present work aim to extract gold from e waste by aqua regia solution based hydro metallurgy method which includes a sequence of process that starts from the treatment of the e waste in HCL solution and ends up with the use of fire assaying technology to get the piece of gold. The outcome of the project successful with 0.05395gm of 23.76 karat and 99.01 % purity of gold extracted. X ray method is used to check the purity and karat of the gold.
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Vahidi, Hossein, and Abbas Ghavam. "Waste Management to improve of condition in Kerman Graduate University of Technology." Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research 10, no. 1 (March 5, 2022): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.32598/jaehr.10.1.1228.

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Background: Green management is a major factor contributing to the sustainable development and improvement of organizational performance levels. Therefore, the development of university waste management with a green management approach can improve university sustainability indicators' environmental status and quality. This study aims to evaluate the Kerman Graduate University of Technology (KGUT) status of waste management. Methods: In this study, using field visits, checklists, and interviews with managers and service personnel, the status of waste management in different KGUT buildings was investigated. A sampling of university waste was performed, and then the storage status of special wastes and tanks were examined. Finally, we tried to suggest solutions to improve the status of the waste management system. Results and discussion: In this study, using Analytical Hierarchy Process the indicators were prioritized. Also, sampling and physical analysis of university waste was performed, and the amount of waste production was compared with other universities. Results and Discussion: 21 indicators of impact on KGUT waste management were discussed and prioritized in three categories of educational, executive, and managerial measures. The per capita production of ordinary waste in the university was 233.5 grams per day, an average amount compared to other universities. Conclusion: The management of hazardous waste in the university needs more attention, and improving the storage system and its disposal is the priority of corrective measures. An important step that is of great importance is training staff and students in the field of waste management, which can pave the way for many changes.
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Zhang, Mingshun, Yitong Yang, and Chun Xia-Bauer. "Measuring Urban Low-Carbon Sustainability in Four Chinese Cities." Sustainability 13, no. 21 (November 7, 2021): 12281. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132112281.

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Practices and research on measuring traditionally urban sustainability abound, therefore the challenge now is related to how the urban carbon issues are included into current measuring methods, thus there is a need to develop methods for measuring urban low-carbon sustainability. In this paper, a simple method, which is based on low-carbon sustainability index, is developed. The overall urban low-carbon sustainability index is the weighted sum of 11 single indices, and each single index is defined as the indicator assessing the development level against the baseline. The baseline is often the criteria or the minimum requirement of low-carbon sustainability. Case studies in four Chinese cities have put this method into practice, and the results show that all four selected cities fail to pass the testing of sensible low-carbon sustainability rule and they are all in weakly low-carbon sustainable development. Although the four cities have made great progress in their capacity building on pollution control and their capacities on wastewater treatment, main pollutants’ removal and household and hazardous wastes treatment are enough to meet the needs of local development, they are all facing the great challenges on using of sustainable energy, offsetting of CO2 emissions and adoptions of nature-based solutions. The method developed by this research is a useful tool for decision makers identifying whether the local development is not on a low-carbon sustainable path.
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Dehnavi, S., A. A. Abkar, Y. Maghsoudi, and E. Dehnavi. "A STUDY FOR REMOTE DETECTION OF INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS’ EFFECT ON RICE USING THERMAL IMAGES." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XL-1-W5 (December 10, 2015): 147–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-1-w5-147-2015.

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Rice is one of the most important nutritious grains all over the world, so that only in some parts of Asia more than 300 million acres allocated for cultivating this product. Therefore, qualitative and quantitative management of this product is of great importance in commercial, political and financial viewpoints. Rice plant is very influenced by physical and chemical characteristics of irrigation water, due to its specific kind of planting method. Hence, chemically-polluted waters which received by plant can change in live plants and their products. Thus, a very high degree of treatment will be required if the effluent discharges to rice plants. Current waters receive a variety of land-based water pollutants ranging from industrial wastes to excess sediments. One of the most hazardous wastes are chemicals that are toxic. Some factories discharge their effluents directly into a water body. So, what would happen for rice plant or its product if this polluted water flow to paddies? Is there any remotely-based method to study for this effect? Are surface temperature distributions (thermal images) useful in this context? The first goal in this research is thus to investigate the effect of a simulated textile factory’s effluent sample on the rice product. The second goal is to investigate whether the polluted plant can be identified by means of thermal remote sensing or not. The results of this laboratory research have proven that the presence of industrial wastewater cause a decrease in plant’s product and its f-cover value, also some changes in radiant temperature.
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Arnaud, Tonang Zebaze, Njueya Kopa Adoua, Nguetnkam Jean Pierre, Tchameni Rigobert, Kwékam Maurice, and Akang Ndelle Brown. "Geochemical Assessment for Trace Metal Contamination of Mining Wastes of Fel and Its Environs in Adamawa Region (Cameroon)." European Journal of Environment and Earth Sciences 3, no. 5 (October 20, 2022): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejgeo.2022.3.5.332.

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Mining waste due to gold exploitation has a great consequence for the environment and needs to be assessed where mining sites are developed for good sustainable environmental management because it is responsible for the release of massive amounts of hazardous metals. For this purpose, the diagnosis of the current state of the environment of the mining sites of Fel and its environs was carried out through physical and geochemical analysis to assess evidence of pollutant capacity. Physical analyses focus on the granulometry of wastes while geochemical analyses concern the assessment of the amount 10 Metallic trace elements (MTE) on 9 samples from three mining sites. The results of the granulometric analyses reveal heterogeneity and discontinuity in the sandy gravel texture of the waste. Geochemical analyses show that a fine fraction less than 80 μm presents the best geochemical result for all chemical elements. The geoenvironmental assessment of the wastes according to the Geoaccumulation Index (Igeomax=7,14), the Contamination Factor (CFmax=212,45), the Degree of Contamination (DCmax=252,86) and the Sediment Pollution Index (SPI), characterized by low polluted sediment (SPImax=4,07), made it possible to establish the high link between As and Sb with very high concentrations, thus extreme pollution of these elements in the mining waste of the study area, particularly in Foum, Mama Wassande and Fel. Strong to very strong positive correlations observed between As and Cu, Pb, Cd and Cr, suggest that these MTE originated from a common source of contamination. Therefore, these MTE should be assessed on groundwater to prevent and avoid or minimize their effect on human health in this environment.
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Kopynets, Ivan, Volodymyr Kaskiv, and Оleksii Sokolov. "Study of properties of dusty wastes from power generating plants of Ukraine." Dorogi i mosti 2021 (March 25, 2021): 94–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.36100/dorogimosti2021.23.094.

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Introduction. Disposal of recycled materials is targeted at saving the natural resources and reducing the volume of wastes that have to be disposed of in special landfills. Disposal is encouraged by many countries of the European Union. A key element in promoting of wastes recycling is the «polluter pays» principle, which has been included in all Community directives regarding management of safe and hazardous wastes. In order to encourage recycling, many Member States have adopted specific environmental legislation, in particular, the wastes disposal tax.Problem statement. Today, in Ukraine the issue of utilization of industrial wastes has not been solved, that is why a considerable part of them are in the dumps and pose a great risk for the environment; and only a small part of them is utilized in the construction projects [1], although there exists the «State Target Economic Program for the Development of Public Roads of National Significance for 2018–2022» [2] and the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine [3] which regulate the use of local materials, including industrial waste during the construction of motor roads. At the same time, millions of tons of dusty wastes are being produced at the Ukrainian power plants as a result of coal combustion — fly ash and ash from a tailings dam.Purpose. Carrying out of research of ash from a tailings dam and a mixture of limestone material with the ash from the tailings dam on conformity with the requirements to fillers.Materials and methods. The ash from a tailings dam, a mixture of limestone material with the ash from a tailings dam and commercially produced limestone filler have been selected for the study.Results. The results of the research on establishing the possibility of using the dusty waste products from power generating plants for the production of asphalt mixtures are presented. Experimental studies have been performed to determine the physical and mechanical properties of the ash from the tailings dam with partial replacement by limestone material. The conformity of the studied materials to the requirements of national standards was determined.Conclusions. Studies for determination of grading, porosity, swelling and structuring ability showed that the tested ash does not meet the requirements of Table No.5 of DSTU B V.2.7-121 for porosity in the case of compaction of 40 MPa; a mixture 80:20 — for swelling of samples of the filler with bitumen; and the mixture 50:50 meets the established requirements by defined indicators. A significant swelling increase of the samples from the mixture of filler with bitumen may be the result of high content of clay impurities in the test materials.Keywords: industrial wastes, limestone material, ash, filler. physical and mechanical properties.
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Leung, Kin-keung Kenneth, and 梁健強. "Management and disposal of clinical waste." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31253775.

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Chan, Wai-man, and 陳偉文. "The control and management of dangerous substances and chemicals in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31253945.

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Great Britain. Dept. of the Environment., ed. United Kingdom management plan for exports and imports of waste. London: HMSO, 1996.

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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Science and Technology. Hazardous waste disposal: 4th report, SelectCommittee on Science and Technology, session 1988-89. London: H.M.S.O., 1989.

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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Science and Technology. Hazardous waste disposal: Review of the Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1980 : 6th report, Select Committee on Science and Technology, session 1984-85. London: HMSO, 1985.

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Department of the Environment. Toxic waste: The government's reply to the second report from the Environment Committee. London: H.M.S.O., 1989.

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Great Britain. Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee. Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee: Financial management and policy review : report of the steering committee. London: Dept. of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions, 1998.

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Packham, Christopher L. Skin management. 2nd ed. Kingston-upon Thames: Croner, 2004.

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Great Britain. Radioactive Waste (Professional) Division., ed. Assessment of best practicable environmental options (BPEOs) for management of low- and intermediate-level solid radioactive wastes. London: H.M.S.O., 1986.

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Great Britain. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution., ed. Radioactive waste management and radioactivity in the environment: A report of research commissioned by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution, April 1986-December 1987. London: H.M.S.O., 1989.

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Skin management. Kingston-upon Thames: Croner, 1997.

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Great Britain. Dept. of the Environment., ed. Disposal facilities on land for low and intermediate-level radioactive wastes: Report on the consultation exercise on the draft principles for the protection of the human environment. London: H.M.S.O., 1985.

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El Mahdi, Abdullah Mohammed, and Hamidi Abdul Aziz. "Hydrocarbon Biodegradation Using Agro-Industrial Wastes as Co-Substrates." In Biotechnology, 1635–65. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8903-7.ch068.

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The diversity of agro industrial wastes makes them an attractive group of organic wastes for potential use in a wide variety of industrial and biotechnological applications. The new stimulating development in this current area of research approaches in combination with the technologies of large-scale production and biotechnology engineering, agro industrial wastes will be economically successful materials of the future. Increased public awareness of issues related to hydrocarbon pollution strongly influences the development of technologies that speed up cleaning hazardous contaminants. The cost of biodegradation technology and the low bioavailability including mass transfer limitations of hydrocarbons, especially those recalcitrant components, from various mediums into the aqueous phase for effective enzyme-based microbial biodegradation still constitute major challenges. Sustainable replacement of traditional microbiological media with agroindustrial wastes as substrates for biosurfactant production holds great potential; thereby decrease numerous management problems of handling industrial waste. These organic nitrogen-rich nutrients (biostimulation) are an effective means to enhance the bioremediation process and widely available as wastes in the environment; hence, they can serve as “natural waste-to-environmental clean-up.” However, current chapter have focused on the combined use of biosurfactants and enzymes produced from renewable resources such as agro-industrial waste, through assisted biostimulation and bioaugmentation, for hydrocarbon biodegradation.
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El Mahdi, Abdullah Mohammed, and Hamidi Abdul Aziz. "Hydrocarbon Biodegradation Using Agro-Industrial Wastes as Co-Substrates." In Handbook of Research on Inventive Bioremediation Techniques, 155–85. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2325-3.ch007.

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The diversity of agro industrial wastes makes them an attractive group of organic wastes for potential use in a wide variety of industrial and biotechnological applications. The new stimulating development in this current area of research approaches in combination with the technologies of large-scale production and biotechnology engineering, agro industrial wastes will be economically successful materials of the future. Increased public awareness of issues related to hydrocarbon pollution strongly influences the development of technologies that speed up cleaning hazardous contaminants. The cost of biodegradation technology and the low bioavailability including mass transfer limitations of hydrocarbons, especially those recalcitrant components, from various mediums into the aqueous phase for effective enzyme-based microbial biodegradation still constitute major challenges. Sustainable replacement of traditional microbiological media with agroindustrial wastes as substrates for biosurfactant production holds great potential; thereby decrease numerous management problems of handling industrial waste. These organic nitrogen-rich nutrients (biostimulation) are an effective means to enhance the bioremediation process and widely available as wastes in the environment; hence, they can serve as “natural waste-to-environmental clean-up.” However, current chapter have focused on the combined use of biosurfactants and enzymes produced from renewable resources such as agro-industrial waste, through assisted biostimulation and bioaugmentation, for hydrocarbon biodegradation.
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Deckers, Jan, Rik Vanbrabant, Ronald Womack, and Mark Shuey. "Plasma Treatment of Problematic Waste." In ASME 2001 8th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2001-1234.

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Abstract Worldwide a great deal of the low and medium radioactive waste inventory is mixed with hazardous wastes and different non-combustibles. The path to treating these wastes historically has been to sort combustibles from non-combustibles and process them separately through incineration, supercompaction, cementation or other encapsulating technologies. Special attention has to be taken due to the presence of hazardous constituents. The cost and health physics exposure for sorting these types of mixed wastes and treating the separated streams in specialized infrastructure is not optimal and leaves a great potential for further optimization. After several years of development, a commercially available high temperature treatment system has been developed and installed that treats heterogeneous low-level radioactive waste. High temperature plasma processing and unique torch design and operating features make it feasible to achieve a volume reduced, permanent, high integrity waste form while eliminating the personnel exposure and cost associated with sorting, characterizing and handling. Plasma technology can also be used to recondition previous conditioned waste packages that don’t meet any longer the present acceptance criteria for final disposal. Plasma treatment can result in many cases in a substantial volume reduction, lowering the final disposal costs. This paper covers the unique plasma centrifugal treatment principles and history. It also explains the roles of international partners that blend plasma, off gas treatment and nuclear expertise into one “best developed and available technology” (BDAT) for the treatment of problematic wastes.
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Palmu, P. Marjatta, and Torsten L. Eng. "Towards an “Implementing Geological Disposal Technology Platform” in Europe." In ASME 2009 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2009-16365.

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Several European waste management organizations have started the work on creating a technology platform to accelerate the implementation of deep geological disposal of radioactive waste in Europe. There is an increasing consensus in the international community [1] about geological disposal as the preferred option for solving the long-term management of spent fuel, high-level waste, and other long-lived radioactive wastes. At the same time, the European citizens [2] have a widespread wish for a solution for high-level radioactive waste disposal. A majority of the European countries with nuclear power have active waste management programmes, but the current status and the main challenges of those programmes vary. The most advanced waste management programmes in Europe (i.e. Sweden, Finland and France) are prepared to start the licensing process of deep geological disposal facilities within the next decade. Despite the differences between the timing and the challenges of the different programmes, there is a joint awareness that cooperation on the scientific, technical, and social challenges related to geological disposal is needed, and the cooperation will be beneficial for the timely and safe implementation of the first geological disposal facilities. Such a demonstration of a viable solution for the management of high-level radioactive waste will enhance stakeholder confidence in Europe. Several decades of research, development and demonstration (RD&D) have been carried out in the field of geological disposal. International opportunities of cooperation and establishing a technology platform were explored in the European Commission co-funded projects like Net.Excel [3] and CARD [4]. According to the CARD project, the majority of the funding for RD&D in waste management comes from the implementing organizations. It is envisaged that a technology platform would enhance European cooperation in this area. The platform intends to constitute a tool for reducing overlapping work, to produce savings in total costs of research and implementation, and to make better use of existing competence and research infrastructures. After the final workshop of the CARD project in 2008, SKB (Sweden) and Posiva (Finland) were committed to lead the preparation work to set-up the Implementing Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste Technology Platform (IGD-TP). Other implementers from France, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Spain, and Belgium joined en suite. A Vision Document for the IGD-TP is about to be finalized after a wider consultation was carried out in July 2009. The final Vision Document and the platform are launched during November 2009. Simultaneously, the preparation of the Strategic Research Agenda for the technology platform’s joint work starts.
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