A disposal of radioactive wastes is one of the urgent issues in worldwide. Considering upcoming plans for decommissioning of nuclear power plants, this problem is unavoidable and should be discussed very thoughtfully before long. There are variety of methods to deal with radioactive wastes, including Incineration process, conventional gasification process and plasma gasification process and so on. Among them, plasma gasification process is in the limelight due to its ecofriendly features and very large volume reduction effects. So, lots of countries like Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Bulgaria are already utilizing commercial plasma melting facilities and researching their own characteristics & disposal abilities and so on. Within the scope of this paper, I would like to introduce other countries current status of plasma melting facilities, and reach the conclusion on the directions to go for realistic radioactive wastes treatment.

• HyungJun Kim(KEPCO Korea Plant Service & Engineering (KEPCO KPS)) Corresponding author
• Dongguk Shin(KEPCO Korea Plant Service & Engineering (KEPCO KPS))
• Heewon Kim(KEPCO Korea Plant Service & Engineering (KEPCO KPS))
• Sunghoon Hong(Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) Central Research Institute (KHNP-CRI))