Enum: IAEAWasteClassificationEnum

IAEA General Safety Requirements radioactive waste classification scheme

URI: valuesets:IAEAWasteClassificationEnum

Permissible Values

Value	Title	Meaning	Description	Activity Level	Clearance	Containment Period	Containment Requirement	Cooling	Decay Strategy	Disposal	Heat Generation	Isolation Period	Regulatory Control	Shielding	Storage Period	Typical Sources
EXEMPT_WASTE	Exempt Waste (EW)		Waste with negligible radioactivity requiring no regulatory control	negligible	can be cleared from regulatory control					as ordinary waste			none required
VERY_SHORT_LIVED_WASTE	Very Short-Lived Waste (VSLW)		Waste stored for decay to exempt levels within few years		after decay period				storage for decay						up to few years	medical, research isotopes
VERY_LOW_LEVEL_WASTE	Very Low Level Waste (VLLW)		Waste requiring limited containment and isolation	very low but above exempt			limited			near-surface landfill-type		limited
LOW_LEVEL_WASTE	Low Level Waste (LLW)		Waste requiring containment for up to hundreds of years	low		up to few hundred years				near-surface disposal	negligible
INTERMEDIATE_LEVEL_WASTE	Intermediate Level Waste (ILW)		Waste requiring containment for thousands of years	intermediate		up to thousands of years				geological disposal	low (<2 kW/m³)			required
HIGH_LEVEL_WASTE	High Level Waste (HLW)		Waste requiring containment for thousands to hundreds of thousands of years	high		thousands to hundreds of thousands of years		required		geological disposal	significant (>2 kW/m³)			heavy shielding required

Slots

Name	Description
waste_classification	International radioactive waste classification

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

• from schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/valuesets

LinkML Source

name: IAEAWasteClassificationEnum
instantiates:
- valuesets_meta:ValueSetEnumDefinition
description: IAEA General Safety Requirements radioactive waste classification scheme
title: IAEA Waste Classification
from_schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/valuesets
contributors:
- orcid:0000-0002-6601-2165
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
status: DRAFT
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  EXEMPT_WASTE:
    text: EXEMPT_WASTE
    description: Waste with negligible radioactivity requiring no regulatory control
    annotations:
      regulatory_control:
        tag: regulatory_control
        value: none required
      clearance:
        tag: clearance
        value: can be cleared from regulatory control
      disposal:
        tag: disposal
        value: as ordinary waste
      activity_level:
        tag: activity_level
        value: negligible
    title: Exempt Waste (EW)
    aliases:
    - EW
  VERY_SHORT_LIVED_WASTE:
    text: VERY_SHORT_LIVED_WASTE
    description: Waste stored for decay to exempt levels within few years
    annotations:
      storage_period:
        tag: storage_period
        value: up to few years
      decay_strategy:
        tag: decay_strategy
        value: storage for decay
      clearance:
        tag: clearance
        value: after decay period
      typical_sources:
        tag: typical_sources
        value: medical, research isotopes
    title: Very Short-Lived Waste (VSLW)
    aliases:
    - VSLW
  VERY_LOW_LEVEL_WASTE:
    text: VERY_LOW_LEVEL_WASTE
    description: Waste requiring limited containment and isolation
    annotations:
      containment_requirement:
        tag: containment_requirement
        value: limited
      disposal:
        tag: disposal
        value: near-surface landfill-type
      activity_level:
        tag: activity_level
        value: very low but above exempt
      isolation_period:
        tag: isolation_period
        value: limited
    title: Very Low Level Waste (VLLW)
    aliases:
    - VLLW
  LOW_LEVEL_WASTE:
    text: LOW_LEVEL_WASTE
    description: Waste requiring containment for up to hundreds of years
    annotations:
      containment_period:
        tag: containment_period
        value: up to few hundred years
      disposal:
        tag: disposal
        value: near-surface disposal
      activity_level:
        tag: activity_level
        value: low
      heat_generation:
        tag: heat_generation
        value: negligible
    title: Low Level Waste (LLW)
    aliases:
    - LLW
  INTERMEDIATE_LEVEL_WASTE:
    text: INTERMEDIATE_LEVEL_WASTE
    description: Waste requiring containment for thousands of years
    annotations:
      containment_period:
        tag: containment_period
        value: up to thousands of years
      disposal:
        tag: disposal
        value: geological disposal
      activity_level:
        tag: activity_level
        value: intermediate
      heat_generation:
        tag: heat_generation
        value: low (<2 kW/m³)
      shielding:
        tag: shielding
        value: required
    title: Intermediate Level Waste (ILW)
    aliases:
    - ILW
  HIGH_LEVEL_WASTE:
    text: HIGH_LEVEL_WASTE
    description: Waste requiring containment for thousands to hundreds of thousands
      of years
    annotations:
      containment_period:
        tag: containment_period
        value: thousands to hundreds of thousands of years
      disposal:
        tag: disposal
        value: geological disposal
      activity_level:
        tag: activity_level
        value: high
      heat_generation:
        tag: heat_generation
        value: significant (>2 kW/m³)
      cooling:
        tag: cooling
        value: required
      shielding:
        tag: shielding
        value: heavy shielding required
    title: High Level Waste (HLW)
    aliases:
    - HLW