[en] In Mexico, it is necessary to establish in a few years, a definitive repository for low and intermediate level radioactive waste in order to satisfy the necessities for the next 50 to 80 years. Therefore, it is required to estimate the radioactive waste volumes generated annually, the updated stored volumes and their projection to the medium term. The results from the simulation of four cases considering the operation for 40 and 60 years of two nuclear power reactors, the use of conventional treatment technology and solid super compaction. If the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant is done 30 years after its lifetime, then it could be saved 50% of the total volume of radioactive waste, without considering that the reactor was operated during 40 or 60 years. Also, this operation extension for the two units represented an increase of 20% for the total volume. (author)
Source
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); Agence nationale pour la gestion des dechets radioactifs, ANDRA (France); OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (France); 718 p; ISBN 92-0-102905-5; 
; Jun 2005; p. 3-7; International symposium on disposal of low activity radioactive waste; Cordoba (Spain); 13-17 Dec 2004; IAEA-CN--124/56; ISSN 0074-1884; ; Available on 1 CD-ROM attached to the back of the Proceedings Series; 9 refs, 5 figs, 2 tabs
; Jun 2005; p. 3-7; International symposium on disposal of low activity radioactive waste; Cordoba (Spain); 13-17 Dec 2004; IAEA-CN--124/56; ISSN 0074-1884; ; Available on 1 CD-ROM attached to the back of the Proceedings Series; 9 refs, 5 figs, 2 tabs