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Abstract
Radiological impacts are often disregarded in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) due to the
lack of a standard and comprehensive framework for including the impacts of radionuclides
alongside other emissions from industrial processes. This data article is related
to the research articles “Radiological Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment. Part I: General
framework and two practical methodologies” [1] and “Radiological Impacts in Life Cycle
Assessment. Part II: Comparison of Methodologies” [2], which introduced two practical
methodologies for assessing the radiological impacts in LCA; these are UCrad and the
Critical Group Methodology (CGM). This article reports the characterisation factors,
for routine direct discharges and releases from nuclear waste disposed in a geological
disposal facility, obtained from both methodologies. The article also reports the
underlying data supporting the methodologies and the analysis carried out in the related
research articles.