RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

Today one of the major challenges facing by mankind is to provideproper management for radioactive waste management. Any industrial activity results in generation of some wastematerial. Nuclear industry is no exception and the presence of radiation emitting radioactive materials which may have adverse impact on living beings and which is likely to continue to the subsequent generation as well is what sets nuclear or radioactive wastes apart from other conventional hazardous wastes. Another unique feature of the radioactive waste is the decay of radioactivity with time. This fact is gainfully exploited by the nuclear waste managers. TheNRC regulates the management, storage and disposal of radioactive waste produced as a result of NRC-licensed activities. The agency has entered in to agreements with 32 states, called Agreement States, to allow these states to regulate themanagement, storage and disposal of certain nuclear waste