Commercial nuclear fuel cycle, radioactive wastes from

Inclusion of NARM waste in the same classification system with radioactive waste that arises from operations of the nuclear fuel cycle would require a change in the scope of AEA, because management and disposal of commercial NARM waste cannot be regulated under AEA. 

Ewest, E., and H. W. Levi Evaluation of Products for the Solidification of High-Level Radioactive Waste from Commercial Reprocessing in the Federal Republic of Germany, Proceedings of the Mane ement of Radioactive Wastes from the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, vol. 2, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1976, p. 15. 

Nuclear Waste. NRC defines high level radioactive waste to include (/) irradiated (spent) reactor fuel (2) Hquid waste resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system, and the concentrated wastes from subsequent extraction cycles, in a faciHty for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel and (3) soHds into which such Hquid wastes have been converted. Approximately 23,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel has been stored at commercial nuclear reactors as of 1991. This amount is expected to double by the year 2001. 

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