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Radiation Equivalence and Natural Similitude in Handling Radioactive Wastes

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The possibility of long-term safe disposal of radioactive wastes based on their radiation and radiation-migration balance with the initial fuel component and taking account of the thermal, radiation, and elastic loads due to waste dispoasl on the natural medium is examined. The specific radiation and radiation-migration equivalence is established on the basis of the radiotoxicity of uranium and the components of the decay of uranium and individual radionuclides as well as the sum of the latter.

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  1. Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Power Engineering, Russia

    A. V. Lopatkin

  2. Institute of the Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

    V. I. Velichkin

  3. Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, Russia

    B. V. Nikipelov

  4. Federal State Unitary Enterprise A. A. Bochvar All-Russia Scientific-Research Institute of Standardization in Machine Engineering, Russia

    P. P. Poluéktov

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Lopatkin, A.V., Velichkin, V.I., Nikipelov, B.V. et al. Radiation Equivalence and Natural Similitude in Handling Radioactive Wastes. Atomic Energy 92, 341–348 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016510211781

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