Financing of the RW management system has always been the matter of least priority for the RF nuclear industry. It has not worked out standard solutions for the RW treatment and pre-disposal conditioning.
The technologies of RW reprocessing and conditioning and, consequently, RW treatment facilities were built taking into account the waste generated at each company. Most of them are non-standard and cannot be universally used.
The available RW treatment facilities are inefficient, have design and technological deficiencies. Most of waste is kept in temporary storages of different types, which do not meet the modern safety requirements and do not have the necessary service equipment. This is explained by the absence of conceptual approach to the RW management.
The problem grows in urgency in view of the coming NPP decommissioning and the avalanche-like RW piling up.
The acting regulatory and legal provisions (nuclear legislation) of the federal level leaves the safe RW management behind.