The project has been prepared and submitted to International Science and Technology Center by the Radiochemistry Group and The Exotic Nuclei Group in collaboration with two Russian institutes: Khlopin Radium Institute and Institute of Macromolecular Compounds. The goal of the project is the development of the methods for encapsulation of long-lived ⁹⁹Tc, ¹²⁹I and ²⁴¹Am in carbon matrixes and the investigation of the properties of the synthesized samples in order to use such type materials for the nuclear waste storage and transmutation. The listed radionuclides are a part of the spent nuclear fuel. Under the reprocessing of the spent nuclear fuel these radionuclides are suggested to will be isolated and incorporated in immobilizing matrixes for disposal or targets for transmutation. At present the development of composite materials for the fabrication of the immobilizing matrixes and the transmutation targets is mainly performed on a basis of oxide and nitride compound. Carbide compounds are less used and carbon materials aren’t used completely. At the same time, carbon as an element has a unique combination of the nuclear-physical, mechanical and chemical properties, which allows the creation on its basis monoelement materials for the fabrication of both transmutation targets and immobilizing matrixes.

The implementation of the project would permit to obtain knowledge on not studied problem of the use of carbon composite materials as host matrixes for radionuclides. The result of it might be the creation of the matrixes for storage and transmutation of radwastes from cheap carbon raw.