Application Of SEAFP Waste Recycling and Clearance Strategies to ITER

The long-term action of safety and environmental assessment of fusion power (SEAFP) of the EU fusion program investigates fusion power reactor design. SEAFP strategy for the management of activated material is here applied to international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER). This strategy aims to reduce the amount of radioactive waste by conditional recycling (re-use of the activated material) in novel fusion plants and by clearance (declassification of the material with low activity level to non-active waste). Limits on the surface dose rates of the activated material after an interim storage of 50 years are proposed here to define the suitable recycling procedures. The possibility of clearance is assessed from limits on the specific activity of the material. These limits take into account the relative hazard of the various radionuclides contained in the material. It is shown that the amount of permanent radwaste arising from ITER may be substantially reduced to 0.