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Yasuda, Hiroshi*; Saito, Tatsuo; Fumoto, Hiromichi*; Sugawara, Shinetsu*; Tsuchida, Shoji*; Kasai, Atsushi*; Furuta, Sadaaki*
Hoken Butsuri (Internet), 58(3), p.120 - 134, 2023/11
This paper is a summary of the activity report of the specialized study group of the Japan Health Physics Society on handling of naturally occurring radioactive wastes from humanities and social sciences perspective. To ensure the reliability of the long-term assessment, this special committee first reviews options for disposal of uranium waste depending on its concentration, especially those adopted or considered in Japan and overseas (U.S.A., U.K.) for uranium concentrations exceeding a sufficiently small amount of uranium (an average of 1 Bq/g of the sum of 
U, 
U, and 
U).
Yasuda, Hiroshi*; Saito, Tatsuo; Fumoto, Hiromichi*; Kasai, Atsushi*; Shimo, Michikuni*; Sugawara, Shinetsu*; Tsuchida, Shoji*; Furuta, Sadaaki*
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Contaminated with naturally occurring radionuclides uranium and its progeny nuclides, "uranium bearing wastes" have very long half-life to decay its radioactivity, which can be hundreds of thousands of years, and have risk to impose a considerable burden on future generations. Based on this, the authors considered that it is important to consider not only from the viewpoint of science and engineering as has been done so far, but also from the viewpoint of humanities and social sciences such as philosophy and history. Therefore, in 2020, the Health Physics Society of Japan established the "the Expert Panel on Management of NORM-Containing Wastes Investigated through the Perspective of Humanities and Social Sciences, and related fields". In this session, we will report on the history and future outlook of our activities so far.
