Engineering:List of nuclear waste treatment technologies

The following are most of the different possible methods of treating and disposing of nuclear waste:

Storage

• Deep geological repository
• Dry cask storage
• Ducrete
• Ocean floor disposal
• Saltcrete
• Spent fuel pool
• Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask (transportation)
• Synroc
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
• Deep borehole disposal
• Vitrification

Treatment

• Nuclear transmutation
• Nuclear reprocessing
  • PUREX

See also

• Nuclear power
• High-level radioactive waste management