Half-lives, of selected actinide

Half-lives, of selected actinide nuclides, 614 Halides, 308. 309. 848-852 Halogen cations, 847-848 Halogen oxides, 846-847 Halogens, 824 electrochemistry of, 853 heavier, oxyacids of, 845-846 physical inorganic chemistry of, 848... 

Deep geological disposal is the most favored solution for the permanent disposal of nuclear wastes with long half-lives. Although the locations of the burial places are selected with outmost care to avoid migration of the wastes in nature over a very long period of time, no barrier can be safe forever, so, numerous studies are in progress to determine the main factors that could cause leaks of radioactive nuclides. Soluble compounds in ground water are likely to play a major role in the release of actinides. 

Another benefit for the SFR fuel cycle system is the reduction of environmental burden by recycling all actinide nuclides and partitioning selected fission products (FPs). The spent fuel contains minor actinides (MAs ie, neptunium, americium, curium, etc.) as well as uranimn and plutonium. In the conventional nuclear fuel cycle, those MAs and FPs are disposed of in a deep geological repository as high-level radioactive wastes. Because of the long-lived radioactive MAs such as Am (half-life 433 years) and Np (half-life 2.1 million years), it takes several hundred thousand years to reduce the radiotoxicity of high-level radioactive waste to the level of natural uranium. 

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