The New Radioactive Waste Treatment Facility at the Jordan Research and Training Reactor

The need for building a national radioactive waste treatment facility was recognized during the first steps of constructing the Jordan Research and Training Reactor (JRTR), as this was a solid block for introducing nuclear energy to Jordan. Toaddress this need Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) agreed with the KAERI-DAEWOO Consortium (KDC) to add the Radioactive Waste Treatment Facility (RWTF) to the JRTR EPD contract. The technical proposal for the RWTF was submitted in July 2014. While the construction and commissioning of the RWTF were finished in June 2017 and obtained the operation license in March

2019. The RWTF facility is capable of receiving low and intermediate-level Radioactive Waste (RW) from the JRTR reactor and other producers. This paper summarizes the status of the RWTF project as well as the operational capabilities of the facility.