Examples of waste products of nuclear energy?

Answer 1

See the link below for the yield of fission products against atomic number. You can identify the element names from the Periodic Table

Answer 2

It sits there in the cooling pond forever because there is no place else for it to go.

Answer 3

Nuclear waste in the form of spent fuel rods.

Answer 4

none

Answer 5

Nuclear power plant fuel cells are functional for approximately 5-7 years, so in the first year, there will be only low-level waste (not the dangerous stuff you think of when you hear "nuclear waste"). After the 5-7 years of the fuel cells, they all would be considered waste, and it all depends on the size of the power plant. A typical size power plan produces 27MWd of electricity, running on 105 tons of fuel, so after those 5-7 years, you would have 105 tons of the high-level waste, but would have generated (27MWd*365.25 days*7 years*1000 kW/24 hours) = 1.659 billion kWh.

For reference, 105 tons of coal would produce roughly 210 million kWh, or 0.21 billion kWh - only 12.5% of the energy, and coal would still produce it's own waste that is much harder to manage as coal is burned and therefore the waste is in the form of a gas.