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What is the difference between spent fuel and nuclear waste?
Laurine Lueilwitz
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What is bad about nuclear waste?
It is highly radioactive (that is the waste contained in the spent fuel)
Which is more of a threat transporting nuclear fuel waste or transporting toxic chemicals?
spent nuclear fuel
What is the main difference between crude oil and petroleum oil?
One is refined and the other has nuclear waste
How much plutonium is in 1 ton of nuclear waste?
The amount of plutonium in the nuclear waste depends on the type of waste and its origin. If by waste, it is meant the spent nuclear fuel discharged from reactor after irradiation, then the plutonium amount depends mainly on the nuclear fuel initial enrichment, the neutron irradiation flux, and the time of irradiation.In usually operated nuclear power reactors of light water reactors, the discharged spent fuel contains roughly 1 kg plutonium per ton of fuel.
What is the difference between hazardous wastes and nuclear energy?
they are different because hazardous waste are dangerous chemicals,but nuclear energy is realeased when billons of atomic nuclei from aranium are split apart in a nuclear fission reaction
The difference between nuclear waste and nuclear weapons?
The exact contents of radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant and radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon can vary widely but are likely to be similar in their primary isotopes.The major difference between the radioactive waste from a nuclear power plant and radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon is that the waste is normally contained and will not enter the environment (unless an accident happens) while the fallout is dispersed into the environment and is carried by the wind (sometimes all the way around the world multiple times).
What is the difference between undigested food and matabolic waste?
what is the difference between undigested food and metabolic waste
Which is a waste problem of nuclear power that does not occur with coal-burning power plants?
The only waste from a nuclear power plant is spent fuel rods, which can be reprocessed. The waste from a coal fired plant is carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, mercury, ash, and soot.
What is the difference between fission and Plutonium waste?
Nuclear fission is a type of nuclear reaction: the nucleus of an atom is broken in two parts (and many other fragments).Plutonium wastes are wastes containing plutonium.
Can nuclear wastes cause explosions?
Nuclear waste can not case an explosion is it's spent form. Once a reactor is done with Uranium rods as fuel they are put into lead lined containers and transported to spent fuel storage. A nuclear reactor can explode from hydrogen build up in the containment vessel, this is due to the reaction going on in the steam generation process, this does not happen in nuclear waste storage facilities.
What does nuclear waste smell like?
It generally doesn't smell like anything. Classic "nuclear waste" -- that is, spent nuclear fuel -- is ceramic or metallic pellets.
What has the author A J Boegel written?
A. J Boegel has written: 'Projected spent fuel storage requirements' -- subject(s): Radioactive waste disposal, Waste disposal, Spent reactor fuels, Storage, Nuclear power plants
