1. Assessment of radioactive waste within the ITER hot-cell facility
Meeting in Garching, January 17-18, 2006
Main results of the task TW3-TSW-002:
Assessment of radioactive waste within the ITER hot-cell facility
Karin Brodén and Gunnar Olsson

2. Hot cell and waste treatment facility
The hot cell and waste treatment facility will be equipped for the handling of all types of waste from the operation and decommissioning of ITER:
Non-radioactive waste from maintenance and replacements during the hydrogen phase
Radioactive operational waste
Hot cell waste from the replacement/refurbishing of in-vessel components
Radwaste building maintenance and housekeeping waste
The waste should be taken out from the facility before the start of DT-operation, after which the facility will be classified area.
Radioactive decommissioning waste

3. Hot cell waste
Primary waste: 847 tonnes (42 tonnes/year)

4. Treatment of hot cell waste
Waste placed in cassettes and compacted
Resting “cakes” placed in 183 liter stainless steel containers (2 “cakes” in each container)
Waste immobilised with cement in 1.5 m3 stainless steel containers

5. Hot cell waste Conditioned waste volumes (m3) for disposal in:
TFA (Very Low Level Waste)
CSA (Low Level Waste)
Advanced repository
Totally: m3 (17-45 m3 per year)
Totally: 50 m3 (2.5 m3 per year)

6. Radwaste building and housekeeping waste
Combustible solid waste ( m3/year)
Incineration, immobilisation of ashes in cement
400-litre steel drums
Non combustible solid waste ( m3/year)
Super compaction of 200-litre drums
400-litre steel drums
ILW spent ion exchange resins (2-4 m3/year)
Embedding in epoxy matrix
2 m3 concrete containers
LLW spent ion exchange resins and spent filters (6-8 m3/year)
Immobilisation in concrete
2 m3 concrete containers
Oil waste
Incineration
No residue
Waste from water cleaning
Embedding in cement
2 m3 concrete containers
Special tritium waste
Return to hot cell

7. Radwaste building and housekeeping waste
Conditioned waste (m3/year)
Totally: /- 25 % m3 ( m3 per year)