Highly radioactive wastes are dangerous and deadly wherever they are, whether stored at reactor sites (indoors in pools or outdoors in dry casks); transported on the roads, rails, or waterways; or dumped on Native American lands out West. Highly radioactive wastes include solid irradiated nuclear fuel assemblies (called spent or used by the industry that creates them) and liquid high-level radioactive wastes resulting from the reprocessing (extraction of fissile plutonium and uranium) of solid irradiated fuel rods. The vast majority of highly radioactive wastes generated in the US come from commercial nuclear power reactors. Irradiated nuclear fuel rods discharged from commercial nuclear power plants are highly radioactive, a million times more so than when they were first loaded into a reactor core as fresh fuel. If unshielded, irradiated nuclear fuel just removed from a reactor core could deliver a lethal dose of radiation to a person standing three feet away in just seconds. Even after decades of radioactive decay, a few minutes unshielded exposure could deliver a lethal dose. Certain radioactive elements (such as plutonium-239) in spent fuel will remain hazardous to humans and other living beings for hundreds of thousands of years. Other radioisotopes will remain hazardous for millions of years. Thus, these wastes must be shielded for centuries and isolated from the living environment for hundreds of millenia. For more on the problems of this waste disposal, go to the …
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tehmadcap says:
February 10, 2012 at 5:17 pm (UTC 0)
@Hodgeisdaman The funny part is the sun is a constant nuclear reaction.
Hodgeisdaman says:
February 10, 2012 at 5:43 pm (UTC 0)
@tehmadcap but then all the enviromentalist would make a group posed to saving the sun or some crap
1991Timmo says:
February 10, 2012 at 6:13 pm (UTC 0)
@tehmadcap well just as well it will never happen mr rocket scientist
tehmadcap says:
February 10, 2012 at 6:25 pm (UTC 0)
@1991Timmo You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. The only problem is getting it to the sun, if we could do that safely the sun would be the perfect candidate for high level waste disposal. However, the risk of the transport rocket exploding in the atmosphere and showering the planet with radioactive waste is far too great. This is why it is out of question and will never happen. It’s also the reason we can’t power rockets with nuclear energy.
1991Timmo says:
February 10, 2012 at 7:18 pm (UTC 0)
@giantsean well we dont want anymore radioactive particles than what the sun already gives out do we? but yes thanx for pointing that out
giantsean says:
February 10, 2012 at 7:51 pm (UTC 0)
@1991Timmo Umm… the sun already emits radioactive particles. Though it IS a stupid idea.
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February 10, 2012 at 8:46 pm (UTC 0)
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1991Timmo says:
February 10, 2012 at 8:51 pm (UTC 0)
@badnewswade thats a good idea, shoot it in2 the sun so that the sun can not only give off heat and light but radioactive waves as well and poisen the whole universe, thats a great fucking idea u braindead redneck
indyfan22k says:
February 10, 2012 at 9:45 pm (UTC 0)
@b1aflatoxin Yea, its amazing how big of a Boondoggle Yuca is.
The irony of radioactive particles is it can give you cancer and it can also kill cancer.
1980 ? it looks like late 1960s film quality and prodcution.
What’s crazy is most people don’t know about the enormity of the “Hanford site”
DeadBodyOutline says:
February 10, 2012 at 10:41 pm (UTC 0)
Isn’t it Neptunium? the waste product?
b1aflatoxin says:
February 10, 2012 at 11:16 pm (UTC 0)
Amazing!!! Thirty years later and America is still using above ground storage behind chain-linked fences. Once again, those darn socialist Euro countries are beating us. LOL
To bad we wasted billions on Yuca Mt.. Now if only they would give it back to the Shoshone people all would be forgiven IMO.
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February 10, 2012 at 11:42 pm (UTC 0)
If the grid goes down, we’re toast.
rog197236 says:
February 10, 2012 at 11:55 pm (UTC 0)
Ya know shooting it into the sun sounds like a good idea providing NASA can launch a rocket safely with it being loaded with waste…something to think about?…Yes the russians do love Vodka and being commies…lol
badnewswade says:
February 11, 2012 at 12:20 am (UTC 0)
@rog197236 Either shoot it into the sun or bury it somewhere and forget all about it.
The Russians have developed a special anti radiation drug in case there are accidents – it’s called “vodka”.
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February 11, 2012 at 12:35 am (UTC 0)
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rog197236 says:
February 11, 2012 at 12:42 am (UTC 0)
Amazing what people where thinking in 1980 to rid ourselfs of waste.But the real question is what do you do with the waste we have now it’s got to go somewhere?????
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February 11, 2012 at 1:35 am (UTC 0)
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