Radioactive waste management in the Chernobyl exclusion zone: 25 years since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.

Boris Y Oskolkov, Mikhail D Bondarkov, Lubov I Zinkevich, Nikolai I Proskura, Eduardo B Farfán, G Timothy Jannik

Chernobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology, International Radioecology Laboratory, Slavutich, Ukraine.

Health physics 2011 Oct

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Radioactive waste management is an important component of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident mitigation and remediation activities in the so-called Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This article describes the localization and characteristics of the radioactive waste present in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and summarizes the pathways and strategy for handling the radioactive waste-related problems in Ukraine and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and, in particular, the pathways and strategies stipulated by the National Radioactive Waste Management Program.

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Boris Y Oskolkov, Mikhail D Bondarkov, Lubov I Zinkevich, Nikolai I Proskura, Eduardo B Farfán, G Timothy Jannik. Radioactive waste management in the Chernobyl exclusion zone: 25 years since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. Health physics. 2011 Oct;101(4):431-41