Reducing radioactive waste in processes to dismantle nuclear facilities

Recent years have seen a move into a phase to decommission and dismantle nuclear power stations and facilities, above all in Europe. By 2015, 156 reactors at nuclear facilities across the world had been shut down or were being decommissioned, and by 2050 over half of the current nuclear capacity of 400 GW across the world is programmed to be decommissioned so that it can be dismantled. "In Europe this will result in an increase in radioactive waste while current storage facilities have limited capacity. Optimizing this management is crucial," said the UPV/EHU professor Margarita Herranz.

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