This Glossary describing the usage of waste management terminology has a direct interface with the IAEA document “Safety Glossary”, which also contains waste management terms. Common terms have been harmonized.

Harmonization was also necessary with the definitions of terms used in the higher level publications in the IAEA Safety Standards Series and in the document on the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. However, some of the definitions in the Joint Convention have been specially agreed for the Convention and are unlikely to be used elsewhere.