fisson and fusion nuclear power
2006-12-06 02:59:48 · 5 answers · asked by babynene2 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
In leaking tubs at the bottom of the ocean last time I read about it.
2006-12-06 03:07:36 · answer #1 · answered by m_thurson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't have large-scale fusion power yet... hopefully soon.
Today we store the radioactive waste on-site close to the fission power plant.
This sucks - until you compare it to coal power, which generates so much waste that there's no way to store it at all, so it is just belched back into the atmosphere, increasing your and my chance of dying of lung cancer,
So nuclear fission power sucks less.
2006-12-06 03:09:03 · answer #2 · answered by k_e_p_l_e_r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After being stored in canisters underwater in specialized ponds for 40 years,then underground some 500 metres in geolgical stable areas.for 1000 years, only some of the radioactivity will have been spent.Any way you look at it it is here forever.
2006-12-06 04:17:35 · answer #3 · answered by WUGGY6X9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until the long-term facility at Yucca Mtn, Nevada ever opens, its stored at each individual power plant in big pools of water.
2006-12-06 03:12:02 · answer #4 · answered by rhblong2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The future plan it to store it in the underground salt formations that are totally stable. They mix it with glass and solidify it so that it can not "leak"
2006-12-06 03:55:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋