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What is the name and location of the proposed spent nuclear fuel depository?
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How do you make americium?
Americium is extracted from spent nuclear fuels where is formed by nuclear reactions.
How much money is spent on nuclear weapons worldwide?
Well...I cannot say about how much has been the money spent on nuclear arms worldwide but nuclear weapons have cost the United States at least $5.48 trillion since 1940....!!
Which is more of a threat transporting nuclear fuel waste or transporting toxic chemicals?
spent nuclear fuel
How do scientist collect pure plutonium?
Irradiation of uranium in nuclear reactors, separation from the spent nuclear fuel, refining
Why do spent nuclear fuels generate heat?
After the nuclear fuel is spent the fuel is radioactive. This radiation causes decay heat. The result of the radiation causes movement of atoms, converting it into thermal energy.
How long is a spent nuclear fuel rod a danger?
Thousands of years at least
What is bad about nuclear waste?
It is highly radioactive (that is the waste contained in the spent fuel)
Are nuclear spent fuel rods dumped in the ocean?
No, they are stored in pools of water.
What will nuclear energy do to the environment?
It will have very little effect. Any power station whether fossil fuel or nuclear rejects low quality heat to a cooling water source, lake, river, ocean, or the atmosphere via cooling towers, so nuclear can't be blamed for that. Other than that there is the question of nuclear waste, primarily the spent fuel. The problem here is finding a place to store it in perpetuity, or at least thousands of years. It should be possible to solve this problem with a depository at Yucca Mountain Nevada or some other place. In the meantime it is being safely stored on the power station sites.
What three things are produced when nuclear energy is generated?
Heat, radiation, and spent fuel.
How much money is spent on nuclear weapons each year?
16 trillion dollars
Is there radiation in nuclear energy?
Yes there certainly is, both in the fission process and in the spent fuel when it is unloaded.
