Predisposal (c. 2000 - )

Predisposal. Any waste management steps carried out prior to disposal, such as pretreatment, treatment, conditioning, storage and transport activities. Decommissioning is condsidered to be a part of predisposal management of radioactive waste. Source: International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA Safety Glossary: Terminology used in Nuclear, Radiation, Radioactive Waste and Transport Safety [Working Material Version 1.0], International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, April 2000.

Predisposal is used as a contraction of 'predisposal radioactive waste management', not a form of disposal. (Coincidentally, however, the predisposal process could also be said to predispose waste towards safe disposal).

Timeline

 c. 2000 - Predisposal
       c. 1995 - Disposal

• International Atomic Energy Agency, Safety Guide: Predisposal Management of High Level Radioactive Waste (No. WS-G-2.6), Vienna, Austria, 2000?, http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1151_scr.pdf. Details
• International Atomic Energy Agency, Safety Guide: Predisposal Management of Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste (No. WS-G-2.5), Vienna, Austria, 2000?, http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1150_scr.pdf. Details
• International Atomic Energy Agency, Safety Requirement: Predisposal Management of Radioactive Waste, including Decommissioning (No. WS-R-2), Vienna, Austria, 2000?, http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/P089_scr.pdf. Details