THE RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE UKRAINE: REVIEW OF THE CURRENT SITUATION, PROBLEMS AND TENDS

摘要

The problem of safe radioactive waste management becomes dominant in the context of long-term environmental safety and protection. The solution of this problem is the main condition of acknowledgement of the nuclear energy as a global industrial source of electrical energy in the Ukraine. The safe radioactive waste management is a very sensitive issue in the Ukraine. The well developed uranium-mining, reprocessing and nuclear energy industry coexists with the middling advanced reprocessing and storing industry. In this report the current situation with radioactive waste management in the Ukraine, data of accumulated radioactive waste and some prospect are presented.