Timeline of nuclear waste management
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This is a timeline of nuclear waste management.
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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. | United States |
| 1982 | Policy | The United States Congress passes the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), which establishes the Federal government’s responsibility to provide permanent disposal in a deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from commercial and defense facilities.[2] | United States |
| 1989 (March 22) | The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal is signed. The agreement provides the general framework for the minimization of international movement and the environmentally safe management of hazardous wastes.[3][4][5] | Switzerland | |
| 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.[6][7][8] | |
| 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." | ||
| 2002 | After over 30 years of scientific and technological studies, the United States President and Congress approve the Yucca Mountain site as suitable for a repository os nuclear waste.[2] | United States |
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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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NATIONAL NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM". thenwsc.org. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ↑ Coles, Richard; Lorenzon, Filippo. Law of Yachts & Yachting.
- ↑ Wolfrum, Rüdiger; WOLFRUM, R.; Matz, Nele. Conflicts in International Environmental Law.
- ↑ Sands, Philippe; Peel, Jacqueline; MacKenzie, Ruth. Principles of International Environmental Law.
- ↑ 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.
