"Radioactive waste" (industry term is spent fuel). Is stored in a spent fuel pool and then moved to dry cask storage. (A concrete and lead reinforced shipping c

"Radioactive waste" (industry term is spent fuel). Is stored in a spent fuel pool and then moved to dry cask storage. (A concrete and lead reinforced shipping container). No barrels involved. (At least in the US). In other countries they recycle the fuel in fast breeder reactors to make more fuel. The real issue is what do to do with the steel from decommissioning reactors, as it is radioactive and can't be recycled into new fuel or non radioactive steel. Tldr; nuclear plant operations are not like they are in cartoons.