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What do you do with the waste? Blow it into the sun?
by scalio 7y ago
What do you do with the waste? Blow it into the sun?
- pdonis 7y agoYou reprocess it to remove all the stuff that isn't actually "waste" because it's usable as fuel. What remains presents a much smaller storage problem which has known working solutions.
- manfredo 7y agoBury it underground. The amount of waste generated by nuclear power is a fraction of 1% of all the toxic waste generated by heavy industry. The entirety of the United States' nuclear waste from electricity generation occupies a volume the size of a football field in footprint and 10 yards high [1]. A coal plants generates this much waste every hour. 1. https://www.nei.org/fundamentals/nuclear-waste https://www.nei.org/fundamentals/nuclear-waste