Radioactive Waste

That will vary dramatically with the design of the bomb and whether it is an airburst or a surface burst.

I suppose you mean in the US? Somebody has to store it, it won't go away, and it will have to be stored for centuries to come. Up to now it has all been stored on the power station sites, and at many of these the provided water storage ponds have been filled and dry stores have had to be provided for the older waste which is less active but still dangerous to life. The country needs a solution. One could envision each electricity company owning the plants to be responsible, but I think this would lead to unsatisfactory short cuts which might give trouble in years to come when these companies have disappeared. We have to think long term. The States could be responsible for each State's waste, but then there may not be suitable places for a store in all States that have nuclear plants. The best solution for the country would therefore be to have a national repository in the best place geologically for it, but then no State especially one which does not even have nuclear plants will want to take this task on. The proposed site at Yucca Mountain Nevada is now in doubt I believe. As an outsider, I would have thought the solution was for the Federal Govt to own some territory where they can do what is required, but this wasn't thought of when the country was being carved up into States, apart from Washington DC, and that is hardly suitable on grounds of population density apart from geology.

Currently, nuclear waste is stored in large, radiation resistant containers underground in remote locations around the world. There have been discussions about how governments will be dealing with nuclear waste in the future, but no definitive answer has been concluded. There were once talks of launching it into our sun, but some scientists believed this to be a catastrophicly bad idea. So to sum it all up, if you think of a good plan be sure to let your government officials know :)

The high level waste, which is contained in the spent fuel unloaded from the reactor from time to time, is extremely radioactive and to be exposed to it even for a short time (minutes) would be inevitably fatal. This is why it is treated so carefully, stored underwater at first and then in shielded containers. However it is not likely to be dispersed in the environment, so even if there was an accident during handling it would only affect the few people nearby. The only real worry would be if terrorists got hold of the material and made a 'dirty bomb' which could be released in a city center. Unless they had proper shielded handling equipment though they would probably kill themselves first.

The radioactive fission products from a nuclear reactor are contained in the spent fuel and they stay there whilst the fuel is stored under water or eventually in concrete flasks. Waste will only be produced if and when the spent fuel is broken down and chemically treated, probably to separate out the U-238 and plutonium, which may be worth doing. The waste is then the proportion which is not useful and it will consist of the fission products, ie a range of different elements and their isotopes, many of which are highly radioactive. This material is highly dangerous to life and must be stored safely for a long time (centuries)

We don't normally allow this to happen, the nuclear waste is tightly controlled. But after a disaster as at Chernobyl, the surrounding area is contaminated with radioactive fall out, so crops grown there or animals grazed there would also be affected.

Nuclear radiations especially gamma and X rays are highly penetrating in nature. When they pass through the body of the living organism which knocks out the organic molecules and causes disturbances. This causes death. These radiations cause cancer, leukemia that still don't have a proper cure and gross genetic deformities by damaging genetic codes. The children now being born in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still born with genetic deformities as radioactive pollution does a long term damage. It poisons the soil and groundwater which reaches us through the food chain, thus killing us.

a nuclear wastes is one of the major problem that we are facing now because it is harmful to our environment,to people as well as in our health

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These are probably people who are against nuclear power plants altogether, but we do have waste from the present existing plants and something will have to be done eventually to put it into safer places than just leaving it on the power plant sites. The underground repository does need careful consideration and it must be chosen to be in a geologically safe area, away from populations, and where flooding won't occur.

No. Toxic waste harms health. It doesn't improve it.

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Sorry, it can't necassarily give you powers, though it can do some pretty impressive stuff, for example, there was a case where a man got infected by some, and he grew tentacles!!

So, he was like an Octopus Man! So, almost like super powers!

Though yes, it can be dangerous for your health and should be avoided!

Spent fuel from a reactor is stored under water in a concrete and steel pool to cool and shield it for at least ten years after it is removed from the reactor. After this time, it has decayed sufficiently and heat production is low enough such that it can be removed from the water and decay in the air. It is still shielded to prevent exposing people near it and it is kept under lock and key at the power plant or storage facility to maintain control.

Nuclear waste pollution can cause people and animals to suffer and most likely die from its poisons

Radioactive pollution occurs when a nuclear plant has a meltdown. Radioactive particles that are exposed to living cells will likely cause cancer in people and animals. Furthermore, it can destroy crops and cause them to mutate.

because it dirty

The challenge of making nuclear power safer doesn't end after the power has been generated. Nuclear fuel remains dangerously radioactive for thousands of years after it is no longer useful in a commercial reactor. The resulting waste disposal problem has become a major challenge for policymakers.

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Power plants do not produce "dangerous radioactive waves" or "dangerous electromagnetic waves" or "dangerous subsonic sounds" or anything of that nature. Coal fired plants may produces some sulfur dioxide but that's about it.Nuclear power plants produce some radioactive waste but the major danger arises from the operation in the US of such plants which is aimed at producing plutonium for bombs.

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

nuclear waste is a never ending source of hurt for the environment. truly we should try to contain it for 500 to a thousand years as the waste it produces is deadly and can cause tumors or cancer.

Yes

Very little, the main pollution generated by a properly functioning nuclear power plant is thermal pollution (i.e. heat that would not normally be present otherwise).

Because you can reuse 17% of nuclear waste and use it as if it was new.