Radioactive Waste Handling

Major: Nuclear Power Engineering
Code of subject: 6.143.00.M.068
Credits: 6.00
Department: Heat Engineering and Thermal and Nuclear Power Plants
Lecturer: Associate Professor, Ph. D. Matiko Halyna Fedorivna
Semester: 6 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: • the ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of nuclear safety issues, in particular, to know the basic methods and technologies for radioactive waste disposal; • ability to demonstrate knowledge of the issue of safe management of radioactive waste. • be able to apply knowledge and understanding to identify, formulate and solve technical problems of a specialty, using known methods; • Be able to search information from different sources to solve specialty tasks.
Required prior and related subjects: prerequisites • Nuclear and neutron physics; • Nuclear power reactors; co-requisites • Nuclear power plants.
Summary of the subject: Basic principles and national systems for radioactive waste management. Sources of radioactive waste and their classification system. Collection, sorting and primary characterization of radioactive waste. Choice of radioactive waste treatment technologies, waste minimization. Low-level liquid radioactive waste treatment technologies. Technologies for machining and reducing the volume of solid radioactive waste. Management of Spent Closed Radioactive Sources. Methods of disposal of low and medium activity waste. Methods of deactivation
Assessment methods and criteria: • recitation (30%); • summative assessment (70%, credit): control work
Recommended books: 1. Management of radioactive waste / AV Nosovsky, ZM Alekseeva, GP Borozenets and others; Edited AV Nosovsky. - K .: Engineering, 2007. - 368 p. 2. Management of radioactive waste during the operation of NPP Energoatom NPP: 2013 report 3. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Handling and Treatment of Radioactive Aqueous Wastes, IAEA TECDOC-654, Vienna (1992). 4. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Treatment and Conditioning of Radioactive Organic Liquids, IAEA-TECDOC-656, Vienna (1992). 5. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Management of Radioactive Waste from the Use of Radionuclides in Medicine, IAEA-TECDOC-1183, Vienna (2000).