Strategy of active waste management in the Russian Federation Original Research Article

The paper deals with the main aspects of the strategy for managing currently existing and future nuclear waste in the Russian Federation. There are specific approaches to managing active nuclear waste that was and is being produced from radioactive ore mining and processing and fuel rod fabrication, nuclear power plant operation, spent nuclear fuel reprocessing and defence programme implementation, operation and decommissioning of nuclear powered naval and civil ships and their service bases, nuclear explosions carried out for economic purposes, mining minerals, space programmes and accidents at nuclear units, operation of research nuclear facilities and the use of isotopic products in the economy and medicine. There is a separate review of the issues relevant to spent nuclear fuel management, state of the art for conditioned active waste disposal and promising research trends in the area of active waste management.