Timeline of nuclear waste management
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This is a timeline of nuclear waste management.
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Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
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| Year | Event type | Details | Geographical location |
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| 1895 | German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X rays.[1] | ||
| 1896 | French physicist Henry Becquerel identifies radioactivity. | ||
| 1928 | The International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee (IXRPC) is founded at the second International Congress of Radiology in Stockholm, Sweden.[1] | ||
| 1950 | The International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee (IXRPC) is restructured to take account of new uses of radiation outside the medical area, and is renamed International Commission on Radiological Protection.[1] | ||
| 1957 (July 29) | The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. | ||
| 1977 (April) | Legal | United States President Jimmy Carter bans nuclear transmutation due to the danger of plutonium proliferation. | |
| 1991 (January 30) | Treaty | The Convention on the Ban of Imports into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (Bamako Convention) is adopted by African governments.[2][3][4] | |
| 1996 | "1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter" | ||
| 1997 | Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. | ||
| 1998 (April 22) | The Bamako Convention comes into force. | ||
| 2002 | "There was reported some 47,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste stored in the USA in 2002." |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Clarke, R.H.; J. Valentin (2009). "The History of ICRP and the Evolution of its Policies" (PDF). Annals of the ICRP. ICRP Publication 109. 39 (1): 75–110. doi:10.1016/j.icrp.2009.07.009. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ↑ Sands, Philippe. Principles of International Environmental Law I: Frameworks, Standards, and Implementation.
- ↑ Kummer, Katharina. International Management of Hazardous Wastes: The Basel Convention and Related Legal Rules.
- ↑ Marr, Simon. The Precautionary Principle in the Law of the Sea: Modern Decision Making in International Law.
