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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Richard Storck, Dieter Buhmann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 121 | Number 2 | February 1998 | Pages 212-220
Technical Paper | German Direct Disposal Project | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2833
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Differences in technical concepts for direct disposal of spent fuel and for disposal of high-level waste (HLW) from reprocessing are discussed. The preferred emplacement sites for spent-fuel elements are drifts instead of boreholes, which are used for vitrified HLW. The nuclide inventories of uranium and plutonium are considerably higher with direct disposal. The impact of these conceptual differences on the long-term safety of a repository in a salt formation is investigated.The deterministically calculated radiation exposures for direct disposal and for disposal of reprocessed waste are both within the limits of the German licensing criterion. Furthermore, the differences in the radiation exposures are low, so from this point of view, neither concept is preferable. This result is surprising because the higher inventories of uranium and plutonium in the concept of direct disposal have a negligible influence on radiation exposure. It is shown that the layout temperature of a repository is a parameter influencing long-term safety, where higher layout temperatures are favorable.
