Second Russian National Dialogue On Energy, Society And Security

Second Russian National Dialogue on ENERGY, SOCIETY AND SECURITY(burial) of radwaste. It is important that the national operator be a constituent of thestate-run corporation. The national operator would bear the brunt of long-term radwastestorage and final containment facilities. With time, the national operator wouldFigure 5. Financial mechanisms.significantly improve the general placement and location of these facilities.Several different options have been reviewed for establishing a market of servicesat the stages of long-term storage and burial. Considering the idiosyncrasies of theprocesses and how they are perceived by the public, an option has been selected underwhich a regulatory body will make decisions on limiting the operations of the nationaloperator based on the level at which this service market is developed (i.e., stages of longtermstorage and final containment).In order to provide for practical efforts, the draft law proposes expanding theradwaste classification system. A general outline of the radwaste classification systemis shown in Figure 6.Operational and disposable radioactive wastes are currently classified under acommon system comprised of three main groups based on activity levels and threegroups based on half-value periods. A more subtle structure is proposed and wouldinclude other subgroups. Their descriptions and limits would not be set out in the lawitself, but in subordinate legislation. In order to demonstrate the importance of this work,let us review radioactive wastes with very low radioactive substance content.Today’s Situation is a ParadoxQuantification of the lower limits of radwaste for liquid wastes is based on potablewater requirements, using ten intervention levels. But there are also hygiene standards formaximum permissible concentrations of radionuclides in food products. The standardsmake it seem as if it is completely safe to drink milk with 100 Bq 137Cs per liter — but if14