[en] There are several areas of current concern either bordering on or regarding radioactive waste management in the nuclear fuel cycle. These areas have local, regional and global aspects and require either immediate attention or preparation for future implications. Those areas requiring immediate attention are better management control over mill tailings, a shortage of irradiated fuel storage space, and decommissioning criteria. Fuel storage should be recognized as a viable alternative to reprocessing for at least the next decade and suitable storage space incorporated in nuclear reactor facilities. Regulatory bodies should establish decommissioning criteria which then should be taken into account during the planning and design of a nuclear facility. Areas indicating future implications are removal and confinement of gaseous radionuclides, particularly tritium and ⁸⁵krypton. There is now also some concern regarding ¹⁴carbon which should be investigated. Resolving the high-level and alpha-bearing waste disposal question seems to be one of the most serious problems and highest priority objectives facing the nuclear industry today. Use of suitable geologic formations appears to be the only technology which will be available for the next several decades. The alternative is surface storage in engineered facilities which does not finally answer the question. Consequently, demonstrating the disposition of high-level and alpha bearing wastes in suitable geologic formations should proceed without delay. International co-operation in the establishment and use of regional centres rather than having a proliferation of local facilities for fuel reprocessing should facilitate significantly the management of the resulting radioactive wastes. It would also reduce the hazards associated with having a large number of sources for radioactive releases. Nuclear power programmes can come closer to maturity through international co-operation in resolving the waste disposal question and minimizing the number of facilities involved in fuel reprocessing and radioactive waste management. (author)