Environmental aspects nuclear waste disposal

The different views on the subject were express l at an international woiitshop on tihe environmental and ethical aspects of long-lived radioactive waste disposal in 1994 [12]. The extensive discussions held at this workshop show that final conclusions will have to be based on scientific/ technical and especially ethical grounds. The workshop provided an in ortant base for the Collective Opinion of the Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency on "The Environmental and Ethical Basis of Geological Disposal" [2]. 

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT/NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY (OECD/NEA), Environmental and ethical aspects of long-lived radioactive waste disposal Proceedings of an international workshop, Paris (1995). 

The disarmament policy conducted at present by states possessing nuclear weapons after the cold war has both positive aspects that are aimed at promoting peace on the Earth, as well as a number of security problems that are common to mankind on the whole. Among these problems, the most complicated are the provision of highly reliable radiation safety for the personal and the population as well as environmental protection when dismantling nuclear weapons and disposal of the resulting fissile and radioactive wastes. 

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