Beneficiary Organizations Details

Public Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (PURAM): www.rhk.hu.

Project Aims

The main aim of this project was to assist Hungary in improving the system for safe management of radioactive waste, and in particular in refurbishment of the Püspökszilágy disposal facility. The specific objective of the project was to assess a series of options for the retrieval, processing, treatment/conditioning, interim storage and disposal of various types of radioactive waste currently in store at Püspökszilágy facility so that additional space for further storage/disposal operations of radioactive waste can be freed.

Project Results

During the project implementation various options were proposed and evaluated for:

• Stored/ Disposed radioactive waste retrieval;
• Treatment and conditioning of retrieved and new radioactive waste;
• Storage of non-processed as well as processed waste;
• Disposal of the radioactive waste.

The assessment tooke into account radiological, environmental, economic, technological, and volume reduction criteria. A software tool based on Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis (MAUA) was used for scoring the different options.

The budget for this project was: 265 000 euro.

Further Project Results

Further information on the project could be sought from the beneficiary organizations.