Containment

The function of confining the radionuclides within the manmade barriers that either constitute the waste form or that separate the waste form from the host geological formation.

(Adapted from ICRP Publication 122, 2013)

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from ICRP Publication 119, 2012

Methods or physical structures designed with high integrity to prevent or control the release and the dispersion of radioactive substances.