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Table 8.4 Types of radioactive waste and usual source
Sl.
No.
Types of radioactive
waste
Usual source
1.
Very short-lived waste
Medical applications of radioactivity (diagnoses and therapy)
2.
Very low-level waste
Facility decommissioning operations of nuclear industry
3.
Low- and intermediatelevel short-lived waste
Nuclear industry and a few research laboratories
4.
Low-level long-lived
waste
Waste contaminated by radium from industry and the clean-up
of contaminated sites, or graphite waste, decommissioning of
old gas-cooled reactors
5.
Intermediate-level
long-lived waste
Spent fuel reprocessing and nuclear facility maintenance work
6.
High-level and
long-lived waste
Spent fuel reprocessing
Fig. 8.29 Waste
incinerator
8.5 Disposal