Course Description
Every country operating nuclear facilities, uranium mines or industrial radiation sources must manage radioactive waste — and as Central Asian states build new nuclear capacity and modernise their legislation, radioactive waste management is moving from a legacy issue to a live compliance requirement.
This course develops a comprehensive understanding of radioactive waste management. Participants learn waste classification and characterisation, treatment and conditioning technologies, storage and disposal concepts, transport requirements, the regulatory framework, and the management of uranium mining and legacy wastes — providing the foundational competence required across operators, regulators, and industrial users of radioactive materials.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the origins and types of radioactive waste
- Classify and characterise radioactive waste
- Understand treatment and conditioning technologies
- Explain storage and disposal concepts
- Apply transport requirements for radioactive materials
- Understand the regulatory framework for radioactive waste
- Manage uranium mining and legacy wastes
- Understand waste minimisation and lifecycle planning
How the course is delivered
The course combines radioactive waste management principles with practical classification, treatment and regulatory examples. Participants work through waste characterisation and management planning using realistic scenarios including uranium mining wastes.
The programme provides foundational competence relevant to new nuclear programmes, uranium operations and legacy site management.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Waste management and environmental professionals
- Operators of nuclear and uranium facilities
- Regulatory and compliance staff
- Industrial users of radioactive sources
- Anyone responsible for radioactive waste
Daily programme
- Origins and types of radioactive waste
- Radioactivity and decay basics
- Waste classification
- Characterisation and inventory
- Waste minimisation
- Treatment technologies
- Conditioning and immobilisation
- Packaging and waste forms
- Interim storage
- Disposal concepts and facilities
- Transport of radioactive materials
- Safety cases
- The regulatory framework
- Uranium mining and NORM wastes
- Legacy sites and remediation
- Lifecycle planning and workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
