I mean,I know it produces heat when is active ,but how much does it still produces when is descibed as "waste"? For how long?
2007-05-10 08:05:13 · 3 answers · asked by dragonisaac 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
the uranium material used in nuclear plants comes from - TaDa the earth..when it is removed from the reactor, it produces the same heat as if it had never been mined and was still in the ground where mother nature put it originally.
what happens in the reactor produces by-products that are not part of the normal decay cycle. the heat produced by these outside of the excitiation of the nuclear pile is not significant, but the radiation is dangerous in other ways.
it was planned to use these by-products to re-fuel the plants almost as a perpetual motion scheme. but the US government decided not to implement the breeder program that they had promised to utility companies and left them holding the bag, er wastes unexpectedly.
so as long as we treat this as waste, they will be hazardous for a long time. once we treat this as fuel, then that will cure the CO2 emissions problem. choose wisely.
2007-05-10 10:39:06 · answer #1 · answered by lare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do not tell him like that. i'm going to respond to. The function for radioactive in step with danger E=mc^2 - E is the enegy after radioactive take place - m is the weigh of the Uranium or regardless of which you employ to make a radioactive - c is the fee of light As you know, the fee of light is extremely rapid, then the E is extremely huge. E has enegy of light, enegy of velocity, enegy of warmth... etc. via fact that's totally huge, you experience it extremely heat while a radioactive take place (i'm not American. Sorry for my undesirable English)
2016-10-15 07:26:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not very much heat but it will radiate for 1000 years.
2007-05-10 08:12:45 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋