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This book presents a critical review of designing, siting, constructing and demonstrating the safety and environmental impact of deep repositories for radioactive wastes. It is structured to provide a broad perspective of this multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary topic: providing enough detail for a non-specialist to understand the fundamental principles involved and with extensive references to sources of more detailed information. Emphasis is very much on "deep? geological disposal - at least some tens of metres below land surface and, in many cases, many hundred of metres deep. Additio

Radioactive waste disposal in the ground. --- Radioactive waste repositories. --- Nuclear waste repositories --- Geological repositories --- Radioactive waste sites --- Radioactive waste disposal in the ground --- Burial of radioactive wastes --- Ground radioactive waste disposal --- Underground radioactive waste disposal --- Hazardous waste sites --- Waste disposal in the ground --- Radioactive waste repositories

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The safety assessment of a deep repository for nuclear waste poses challenging scientific and technical questions. The risks from leakage of radionuclides from the repository, including transfers to the biosphere and the food chain must be assessed. This involves complex and poorly understood interactions between groundwater, soils, plants and the atmosphere. A unique, multidisciplinary experimental and modeling program at Imperial College London has been funded by UK NIREX to develop the science and to produce modeling tools to interpret and generalize the experimental data for safety assessm

Radioactive waste disposal in the ground --- Radioactive pollution. --- Radioisotopes --- Soil pollution. --- Biosphere. --- Life (Biology) --- Planets --- Gaia hypothesis --- Geobiology --- Contamination of soil --- Soil contamination --- Pollution --- Soils --- Soil remediation --- Soil salinization --- Migration of radioisotopes --- Environmental radioactivity --- Nuclear pollution --- Radioactivity, Environmental --- Radioactive substances --- Radioecology --- Radioactive waste disposal --- Burial of radioactive wastes --- Ground radioactive waste disposal --- Underground radioactive waste disposal --- Hazardous waste sites --- Waste disposal in the ground --- Radioactive waste repositories --- Environmental aspects. --- Migration. --- Environmental aspects --- Déchets radioactifs --- Pollution radioactive. --- Isotopes radioactifs --- Sols --- Biosphère. --- Élimination dans le sol. --- Pollution. --- Déchets radioactifs --- Biosphère. --- Élimination dans le sol.