Radioactive Waste

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.

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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.

Energy

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.

It must be understood that the nuclear waste produced is contained in the spent fuel discharged from the reactor, and in physical terms it comes out looking just the same as the new fuel put in (but you would be very unwise to look at it except by remote means). A large PWR or BWR will contain about 75 tonnes of fuel and about 1/3 of this is discharged every refuelling outage which occurs at intervals of 18 months to two years, depending on the reactor's load factor while running. So you could say about 25 tonnes of waste every 2 years, in round figures.

Now this 'waste' in composition is still mainly uranium 238, which if separated is almost harmless. The dangerous part is the active fission products, which will be about 3 percent of the total weight. There is also the remaining U235 which has not been burned up, probably about 1 percent, and some plutonium formed from the U238, again about 1 percent.

At present in the US all the spent fuel is stored intact, but if reprocessing was carried out, the amount of actual waste would be reduced to the fission products, if a use could be found for the uranium and plutonium, so the weight per reactor of waste would come down to about 750 kg/ 2 years. This would be stored in some sort of sealed containers, perhaps mixed with molten glass (vitrified), and then buried in a long term repository.

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

By design in depth to take account of all failure possibilities providing appropriate safety systems, and routine inspections during the plant life, and working to approved operating instructions.