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by ljf
3498 days ago
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The waste is not simply the spent nuclear fuel, but much of the machinery and systems around it, plus the discarded items used daily in the management of a plant (clothes etc).
This low level nuclear waste while 'only' dangerous for 100 to 500 years, is huge - vastly bigger than the 76000 metric tons of spent fuel:
http://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/On-Si....
I don't have the tonnage of the low level waste to hand, but it is certainly much larger than the high level waste. |
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Rough estimate of low level waste is 360000 tons