Radioactive waste produced by demonstration and commercial fusion reactors extrapolated from ITER and advanced databases

The radioactive wastes that would be produced in demonstration and commercial fusion reactors which could be extrapolated from the design database that will be provided by ITER and its supporting R&D and from a design database supplemented by advanced physics and advanced materials R&D programs are identified and characterized in terms of a number of possible criteria for near-surface burial. The results indicate that there is a possibility that all fusion wastes could satisfy a “low level” waste criterion for “near-surface” burial.