01-31-2019, 02:33 PM
(01-31-2019, 02:18 PM)GMDino Wrote: Besides the issues in the article this raises the question of what DO we do with the waste?
https://www.nrc.gov/waste.html
Tl;dr: low-level waste (contaminated material) is stored in a couple of different facilities around the country, and high-level waste (fuel rods and what not) have to be kept at the reactor sites because we don't have anywhere to store them.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
