Waste Technology Section
Source Recovery
Planned Activities
Objective:
A number of source recovery operations are currently planned in Latin America, Africa, South East Asia and Eastern Europe.
Sources that no longer have a special form certificate or a licensed transport container can neither be transported in an economical fashion, nor can they be stored in their original shields due to environmental degradation of the source. In developing countries there is no possibility to condition such sources economically and safely. The IAEA subprogram currently involves activities to develop the infrastructure required to allow the handling and conditioning of high activity sources, long lived sources in large size equipment and neutron sources of various sizes and strength.