Bulgaria's Permanent Repository for Radioactive Waste Marks Its 50th anniversary

摘要

December 17, 2014 was the date of the official celebration of the 50th Anniversary since the commissioning of the first repository for radioactive waste (RAW) in Bulgaria. The permanent repository near the village of Novi Han was officially established in the autumn of 1964. Its purpose is the safe management of RAW generated from the implementation of ionizing radiation sources in the science, medicine, industry and the agriculture.