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What are the radioactive properties of the end product like? E.g. does this produce waste with longer half lives? Lower initial radiation?
by rocqua 8y ago
What are the radioactive properties of the end product like? E.g. does this produce waste with longer half lives? Lower initial radiation?
- petre 8y agohttps://youtu.be/rv-mFSoZOkE https://youtu.be/rv-mFSoZOkE Longer half-lives = less radioactivity.
- DennisP 8y agoThe waste from fast reactors is just the fission products. It's about 1% as much waste by volume as conventional reactors. Encased it in glass, and the overall mix will be back to the radioactivity of the original ore in a couple centuries. The waste from conventional reactors is the fission products plus lots of U238, a fair amount of plutonium, some U235, and various transuranics. The transuranics and plutonium are the really long-lived radioactive waste.