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An ever increasing breach between the amount of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) unloaded and its reprocessing, an increase in the amount of waste from fuel reprocessing in the countries with closed nuclear cycles and SNF to be buried in the countries with an open one, and high cost of radionuclides removal from the biosphere necessitate an accelerated development of efficient technologies for high-level waste (HRW) handling. The need in such technologies is dictated also by the absence of reasonable technical decisions on reprocessing large-sized high-level structures, e.g., reactor cores. The rate of accumulation of such structures to be buried is already high and will still be growing in the next decade due to mass decommissioning of nuclear power plants and ships with nuclear power facilities.
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Klimenko, V.N., Loborev, V.M., Maslin, Y.P., Panshin, A.A., Yevterev, L.S. (1996). Disposal of High-Level Waste Through Underground Nuclear Explosions in the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago. In: LeSage, L.G., Sarkisov, A.A. (eds) Nuclear Submarine Decommissioning and Related Problems. NATO ASI Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1758-3_21
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