Module 7 : Soil Pollution

Lecture 7 : Nuclear Waste Management

Treatment (LLW)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Filtration
  • IonExchange
  • Evaporation
  • Incineration
  • Compaction
  • Solidification

 

 

 

Typical LLW treatment facility.

Waste Management (HLW)

  • Most common utilized option are reactor pools and dry cask storage.
  • Other Options for waste management include:

–Deep Geologoical Storage

–Transmutation

–Reuse

–Launching it into space