NEW CRITERIA FOR ASSIGNING WASTE CONTAINING TECH-NOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES TO THE RADIOACTIVE WASTE

• Main Authors: I. K. Romanovich, M. I. Balonov, A. N. Barkovsky
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene after Professor P.V. Ramzaev 2016-01-01
• Series: Radiacionnaâ Gigiena
• Subjects: radiation safety norms (nrb); basic sanitary rules of radiation safety (osporb); technogenic radionuclides; industrial waste; radioactive waste (rw); very low level waste (vllw); criteria of assigning waste to the radioactive waste; limitation of the population exposure from technogenicsources
• Online Access: https://www.radhyg.ru/jour/article/view/270

The article contains detailed description of criteria for assigning of liquid and gaseous industrial waste containing technogenicradionuclides to the radioactive waste, presented in the new Basic Sanitary Rulesof Radiation Safety (OSPORB-99/2010). The analysisof shortcomings and discrepancies of the previously used in Russia system of criteria for assigning waste to the radioactive waste is given.