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Lots and lots of waste is contaminated stuff, not spent fuel. For example the regulations may (and probably do) require that used protection suits be treated as
by radu_floricica 17y ago
Lots and lots of waste is contaminated stuff, not spent fuel. For example the regulations may (and probably do) require that used protection suits be treated as radioactive waste.
This way you end up with huge quantities of waste that may indeed be slightly harmful, but are in no way radioactive enough to be reused as fuel. This is mostly where the "tons" of waste come from.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoThe low level waste you describe is not strongly radioactive. Although obviously a political impossibility, a safe way to deal with it would be to pulverize it and spread it evenly throughout our national parks. This would not even measurably increase the radiation level above the background level.
- yan 17y agoGood luck introducing that bill to the voting public..
- radu_floricica 17y agoOr build schools with it :) I know the statistics. Steven Chu sounds like an interesting guy. We'll see what happens.