Glossary of Terms |
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- facility
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used in the NEWMDB to denote a nuclear facility, especially radioactive waste management facilities
A facility is something that is built, installed or established to serve a particular purpose. For example, in the NEWMDB a storage facility could be a physical structure that was specifically built to store radioactive waste or an existing structure that has been designated to store radioactive waste. A facility may consist of multiple physical structures - see storage unit. - filter leaching
- a waste treatment method where filters, such as HEPA filters, are leached, for example by nitric acid solution, to remove radioactive contaminants
- filtration
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a waste treatment involving the separation of solids from liquids or gases by passing the mixture through the interstices of a suitable medium, for example filter paper, cloth or g
lass wool - Framework Component
- the NEWMDB component that is used by Country Co-ordinators to customize how information about radioactive waste management programmes and inventories for their country will be reported to the NEWMDB
- free release
- see clearance
- friable
- easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder; loose and granular material
- fuel cycle
- see nuclear fuel cycle
- fuel enrichment
- the physical process of increasing the concentration of the uranium-235 isotope relative to the predominant uranium-238 isotope in natural uranium
- fuel fabrication
- the manufacture of fuel for nuclear reactors