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Hanford waste is radionuclides dissolved in acid to get pure plutonium out. It leaks. It's from the Cold War nuclear weapons program. [1] Commercial nuclear wa
by acidburnNSA 8y ago
Hanford waste is radionuclides dissolved in acid to get pure plutonium out. It leaks. It's from the Cold War nuclear weapons program. [1]
Commercial nuclear waste is solid ceramic Uranium/fission product-oxide. It does not leak.
[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/hanford.html https://whatisnuclear.com/hanford.html
- nickik 8y agoThat's a weapons production cite. In most post I tried to separate civilian power waste from that. If we look at civilian power production in the last 40 years its basically a non issue.