Radioactive Waste Management And Safety For The Ignitor Fusion Experiment

Ignitor is a proposed compact high-magnetic field tokamak aimed at studying plasma burning conditions in Deuterium–Tritium plasmas. The determination to carry out this project in Italy has driven to taking into account several candidate sites. Recently, due to several technical reasons, it was identified a new site, the ENEL–TERNA plant in Rondissone (TO). This paper deals with two main aspects of the Ignitor safety: accident analysis with dose assessment to personnel and public, and radioactive waste management evaluations. Concerning the first point, accidents with a frequency higher than 10−7 per year bring to a maximum dose for the most exposed individual (MEI) below 1 mSv. We have applied the Italianwaste management regulations to the Ignitor experiment radioactive materials: none of them should be classified in the high level waste (HLW) category and most materials are classified as low level waste (LLW). If European proposed waste management strategies were applied, all Ignitor radioactive materials could be recycled