NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT: A NIGERIAN CASE STUDY

Nigeria is among the top new comer countries on the African continent. Albeit the public acceptance and the effort by government, one major potential setback to this is the management and proliferation of nuclear waste. Three major Spent Nuclear Fuel management approaches i.e. SNF reprocessing, deep geological repository and SNF export where studied together with five factors that affect policies on nuclear waste management in the Nigerian context. At the end of the study SNF export was found to more suitable than the other two approaches. Notwithstanding if Nigeria is to manage its SNF for a long term solution then deep geological repository approach should be adopted