Processed spent fuel disposal regional context

PROCESSED SPENT FUEL DISPOSAL REGIONAL CONTEXT 

In the Latin American region, due to the scale of the nuclear programmes, the quantities of processed RRSF for disposal are small enough that the construction of the deep geological repository would be beyond the possibilities of the countries involved, even for the region as a whole. It is, however, stressed that the responsibility for the RRSF management still remains and it is not related to the amount of spent fuel generated. 

As was indicated in Section 3, several factors may anticipate the need of RRSF processing and subsequent disposal of its derivatives in the region for the next decades (i.e. the end of the US acceptance programme in 2019, research reactors closure, etc.). 

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PROCESSED SPENT FUEL DISPOSAL REGIONAL CONTEXT... 

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