Future Plans About the High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i3.3664Keywords:
Nuclear Energy, High-Level Radioactive Waste Treatment, Pyroprocessing, VitrificationAbstract
The Biden Administration officially advocated nuclear energy to successfully achieve a net-zero carbon economy for America by 2050. South Korea also abolished the ‘nuclear power phase-out’ policy’, promoting the expansion of nuclear power because of its high efficiency. Despite the preference for utilizing nuclear energy is growing, limitations on expanding the use of nuclear power and insisting on it as a solution for future energy shortages currently exist because there are no effective treatments for the ‘high-level radioactive waste’ other than accumulating in the reactor. Thus, to find effective treatment technology, I reviewed ‘pyroprocessing’ and ‘vitrification’ as possible technologies to solve the nuclear waste problem. I deeply searched the process, advantages, problems, and prospects of the two technologies based on research papers and the ‘Korean Nuclear Energy Newspaper’, and organized them in a table. As a result, I derived an ideal high-level radioactive waste treatment method and predicted that the outlook for nuclear energy will be positive.
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