nuclear waste

image credit: Nikolai Chernichenko*

You could fit all of the waste from your entire lifetime of energy consumption in a 12oz Coke can. (!gi)

What’s the right thing to do with spent nuclear fuel?

Leave it on site* – stored in dry casks (!i) – and in due course ship it to a recycling plant that processes it into new fuel.*


2021-07-10T21:17−07* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: July 10, 2021
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