Nuclear Wasteby | 14-05-2017 12:46 |
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Nuclear waste or radioactive waste, they are almost synonymous. It is waste that nuclear fuel becomes after it is used as a rector. This waste is highly dangerous and will remain to be in the next thousand of years. If you are within a few meters unshielded of the toxic that comes out from the reactor, you can get a radioactive dose and die of acute radiation sickness. If all the electricity use of the USA was distributed evenly among its population, and all of it came from nuclear power, then the amount of nuclear waste each person would generate per year would be 39.5 grams. That's the weight of 7 U. S. quarters of waste, per year! (whatisnuclear.com) The decay of these wastes vary. Some can take hours or minutes but some stay for a very long time. The disposal of these wastes vary as well. Those with low-level of radioactive waste just like gloves or other worn materials can be put in landfills. Some are much more difficult to dispose. They can be put in glass and buried underwater or underground or they can be reprocessed to become nuclear fuels.
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