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Congress receives NRC report on unusual events
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its annual report to Congress for fiscal year 2023 on abnormal occurrences involving medical and industrial uses of radioactive material.
The report, which was announced by the NRC on May 3, is available on the NRC website.
Denis Alexandre
Nuclear Technology | Volume 115 | Number 2 | August 1996 | Pages 138-145
Technical Paper | Characterization of Radioactive Waste in France / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT96-A35259
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Characterization is the sum of measurements and tests applied to a waste package to prove that all its characteristics meet the acceptance requirements drawn up by the authorities in charge of final disposal. If waste producers are in charge of acceptance file presentation, specialized laboratories are involved in testing operations and data interpretation. Because of their knowledge of wastes and the conditioning matrices they have developed, the people in charge of characterization are placed at an interface between producers, repository managers, safety authorities, and research laboratories. Some examples drawn from different fields of activity are given here to illustrate this remarkable situation.