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High Level Waste is waste that is considered dangerous or harmful and is of importance when disposing of carefully

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Which is not a high level radioactive waste?

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What are the different types of radioactive waste?

In the U.S., radioactive waste is divided into three main types, classified according to their activity, their heat generation potential, and what they physically contain. These three main levels are low level waste (LLW), transuranic waste (TRU), and high level waste (HLW). For each of these types of waste, there is a specific disposal solution -- above ground storage or shallow burial for low level waste and deep repository storage for transuranic and high level wastes. In most other countries, nuclear waste is categorized as low level waste, intermediate level waste, and high level waste. The reason for this different classification system is that in the U.S. waste is classified based on where it comes from; in most other countries, waste is classified according to what the effects of the waste might be. In both classifications, low level waste represents about 90% of all radioactive waste


Where is most high-level radioactive waste put?

radioactive waste go somewhere probally in a labratory


Who Conducts research on the storage and disposal of high level radioactive waste?

Energy


What are the advantages and disadvantage of two ways of dealing with high-level waste?

there are none


How can the disposal of high-level nuclear waste be a problem?

It's highly radioactive.


Conducts research on the storage and disposal of high level radioactive waste.?

Energy<-------


Which is a characteristic of surface high-level nuclear waste storage that is not a characteristic of storing the waste in a geological repository?

easily recovered


What department Conducts research on the storage and disposal of high level radioactive waste.?

Energy


Is control rods a high level radioactive waste?

Control rods themselves are not classified as high-level radioactive waste; they are typically considered low- to intermediate-level waste. While control rods, used in nuclear reactors to regulate the fission process, may become radioactive over time due to neutron activation, they usually do not contain the same level of long-lived isotopes found in high-level waste. After their operational life, control rods are usually managed through specific disposal methods that reflect their lower radiological risk.


What kind of nuclear waste are produced by nuclear energy?

Radioactive waves


How is high level waste stored underground?

In the US it is not, all such programs have been killed. High level waste is stored onsite in large pools of water to keep it cool while it decays. Low level waste (e.g. contaminated clothing, contaminated tools, contaminated medical items) are stored underground: in earth filled trenches dug on the surface.