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Where does the US send nuclear waste?
For now nuclear waste is stored on site where the waste was generated. In a few years US will begin to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada but no official date has been set.
Where are nuclear waste from nuclear power plants currently stored?
In the US they're stored on site.
Why are recycling signs used?
is to warn us to recycle materials so that it help by reducing waste
How do nuclear fuels relate to environmental issues?
Nuclear fuels is not only bad for us, but for the enviornment. Some nuclear plants dump nuclear waste in rivers, oceans, lakes and ponds. This can kill and injure living organisms including us. It is not even good to bury it in the ground. Nuclear waste has to be specially desposed.
What is the importance of waste segregation?
waste segregation can make our streets cleaner.It can help us recycle things...
Where are you currently storing nuclear waste in the US?
On the power station sites mostly
How much waste do the nuclear power plants in the US make each year?
1.7billion
After the US made 32000 nuclear bomb from fear of communisum how much nuclear waste was the US left with?
if the US did make 32000 nuclear weapons (it did not) they all can be dismantled and put into civillian nuclear reactors, where the fission process converts the plutonium into other (slightly weird) by producucts. If you are wondering about the amount of waste made by the original breeder reactors, just as much as a normal reactor.
What are some slogans on waste disposal?
Don't trash my Country, says the developing world to the rest of us.
How is waste created by nuclear power plants in the us stored?
they store it until it becomes less radioactive
Why we should you recycle and re use materials?
We should recycle and reuse material because of the fact tha we waste to much and the world can not surport the amount of waste we produce. Recycling prevents us from having massive amounts of waste that ruins our eviorment. Especially if its a resource like trees. We use tress from many things. Recycling prevents us from chomping down more trees than can grow, since we reuse the same trees
Why do some people oppose plans by the US department of energy to construct a nuclear waste storage facility in Nevada?
Mainly I think these are people who oppose anything to do with nuclear power
