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They plan to store it below the base ofYucca Mountain in the VERY BARREN Nevada Yucca Desert

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Q: Where does the US government plan to restore the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants?
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From where radioactive wastes are produced?

By nuclear power plants


Which nuclear process occurs within nuclear power plants and produces radioactive waste materials?

Nuclear Fission


Do most nuclear power plants use atoms to make nuclear energy?

Nuclear power plants use the heat from the radioactive decay of Uranium or other radioactive atoms to boil water and make steam to run electrical generators.


What has the author Carl E Behrens written?

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Can you get power from the radioactive element Uranium?

Yes, the radioactive decay of Uranium-235 is used to produce power in nuclear power plants.


Is the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants dangerous?

It contains a higher amount of radioactivity


What would happen if they just drop a bomb on the nuclear plants?

Widespread radioactive contamination


Radioactive metal used in nuclear power plants?

I think it is uranium


Is it possible to undo atomic or nuclear weapons once made?

Yes, nuclear weapons can be scrapped. The radioactive materials can be used in nuclear power plants.


Where would you dispose the radioactive material from nuclear power plants when you run out of disposal grounds?

NIMBY


What are the advantages and disadvantages of using uranium as a fuel?

Uranium is very important as a nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants. But uranium is toxic and radioactive.


What type of power plant most exposes us to radioactivity coal or nuclear plants?

nuclear plants because the fission reaction releases lots of radioactive particles causing radioactivity..