Regulatory framework for the safety of radioactive waste management

The safety of radioactive waste management is the most important aspect for each country, which has not described the practical implementation of the general safety concepts. Establishing a regulatory framework is the basic issue in radioactive waste management. At the beginning of the regulatory progress, several factors should be taken into account; for example, safety standards according to the technical and institutional capability of related country should be reviewed properly. Although various factors of implementation depends on the each country's own specifications, in this study main factors were defined which effect the regulatory framework for the safety of radioactive waste management.