It is shown on the basis of an analysis of regulatory-legal documents that the assumptions characterizing very low-level wastes contain semantic contradictions and critical discrepancies of a classification nature regarding wastes containing natural radionuclides and are not consistent with the absolute values of the bounding indices – the dose rates and specific activity. The presence of these uncertainties and inconsistencies in the regulatory documentation makes reaching the primary objective of introducing very low-level wastes as a category – reduction of the cost of managing wastes by lowering the requirements for their isolation – problematic. Some variants of the elimination of normalization shortfalls are proposed.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 147–150, March, 2015.
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Nechaev, A.F. Analysis of the State of Normative Regulation in the Management of Low-Level Wastes. At Energy 118, 187–190 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-015-9976-7
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