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how do they reduce or eliminate the waste from nuclear plants?

2006-10-25 13:59:34 · 3 answers · asked by zydn70 1 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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Nuclear waste that is radioactive is enclosed and buried under a mountain, quite deep. The radioactivity decays at various rates, depending on what exactly it is. Sometimes in as little as 50 years, but sometimes up to 1000 years.
Just an interesting fact- coal-burning plants actually produce more radioactivity into the environment than nuclear plants do! by far.

2006-10-25 14:10:31 · answer #1 · answered by indygocean 2 · 0 0

....Not possible for reduction and/or elimination of nuclear waste.
Uranium that is spent and used from nuclear power plants will be radioactive for many many years to come. The product is difficult to handle and so far the only solution is to lock into special 50-gallon drums and other layers of storage, then bury into allegedly geologically safe salt mines very deep underground. Everyone should be aware of this knowledge. I learned while in highschool.

2006-10-25 21:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by devil dogs 4 · 0 0

They don't eliminate it. Currently, only temporary storage areas exist for the disposal of radioactive waste.

At this time the waste from these spent fuel rods is stored in specially-designed, water-filled basins or dry casks at commercial power reactor sites or at one away-from-reactor storage facility.

Most of the weapons grade plutonium pits (pits are the nuclear triggers for a hydrogen bomb) from the dismantlement of nuclear weapons are being dry-stored in casks at a facility outside of Amarillo, Texas

2006-10-25 21:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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