Radioactive Waste

The high level waste, which is the dangerous part, is contained in the spent fuel, so it has the same volume as the fuel rods, unless they are processed. The actual amount is manageable, it is the high activity that is the problem for disposal.

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in on site spent fuel rod "Swimming Pools". once they are full they are full and the reactor will be forced to shut down.

The nuclear pores are tiny holes in the the nuclear membrane surrounding the nucleus of a cell, which allow the movement of solluable materials through the nuclear membrane, in and out of the nucleus.

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its just a fictional element in command and conquesr no such thing/element exists in real life dear..

All the significant high level waste is contained in the spent fuel, and will stay there when the fuel is stored after unloading, unless the fuel is taken to a plant designed for dismantling and separating it. This is done in the UK and France, possibly Russia, I'm not sure about that, but not in the US, not for commercial reactors anyway. The fissile part of the new fuel is about 4 percent U-235 and it is discharged with about 1 percent remaining so that difference determines the percentage of fission products in the discharged fuel. It will also contain plutonium which has been formed from the U-238 which forms 96 percent of the new fuel, but again a lot of the fissile plutonium formed will have been burned up during reactor operation. So the percentage by weight is a fairly small part of the spent fuel, most of which will be U-238, which if separated out is fairly inocuous and could be used in breeder reactors if we had any.

Uranium

No. The products of nuclear fusion are not radioactive.

One reason is that it is incredibly expensive to get things to go into space. Every pound you send into space costs a couple grand. There are probably more reasons, but this is the main one.

because it's a mine and they are still mining i think plus you need 1/2 an inch of lead to protect it. Also you need lots of room

easily recovered

There are no nuclear power plants in Colorado. The only source of waste might be from a small teaching or medical isotope reactor, I have no information on this.

Radioactive substances have half-lives. This is because the isotope constantly is changing from the radioactive isotope to a daughter element. For example, eventually, when uranium's radioactivity is gone, it becomes lead. After one half life of a radioactive substance, only 50% of that substance is still radioactive. Therefore, after one half-life, a piece of uranium is 50% lead and therefore %50 less radioactive. After another half-life, it has 25% of the original radioactivity, and 75% of the original uranium has become lead. This is the problem with radioactive wastes. It takes many years just for one half lives for some substances, such as uranium. Because radioactivity is harmful, those substances have to be stored until they are no longer radioactive. So, in short, the problem with disposing of radioactive wastes is that they have long half-lives. (although this is not true with ALL substances because some have short half-lives, but, in general, radioactive substances have long half-lives.

I believe you are thinking of Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

It is not true. Currently; there are well established methods and approaches to deal with radioactive waste based on the waste form (solid, liquid. gaseous) and the radioactivity level (low, intermediate, high). There are well practiced regulations and laws to deal with radioactive waste to protect the public and workers from being exposed to any unjustified hazards or radiations from radioactive waste.

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The disposal of nuclear waste typically involves encapsulating the waste in materials like glass or ceramic to prevent the release of radioactive materials. This process is aimed at minimizing the long-term impact of radioactive waste on the environment and human health. Specialized facilities, such as deep geological repositories, are used for the final disposal of nuclear waste.

Since it is highly reactive, you can keep it away from humans and vice versa so that it wont harm humans in any shape way or form.

To prevent damage, the NRC has found means of "controlling" radiation. Materials with high levels of radiation are shipped from the nuclear generating stations, where they were created as a by-product, to reprocessing plants. The transportation process itself could be hazardous. Here they are concentrated and stored temporarily in underground tanks. Because long-term tank storage is not as safe as desired, these materials are changed from liquid to solid form. The solids are then sent to a federal storage site, such as an abandoned salt mine, for permanent storage. Salt mines are considered to be excellent sites because they are currently geologically stable. They are not able to be penetrated by water, and not connected to underground water sources. The assessment of stability is based on the assumption of uniformitarian geology.

Yes, and the question is ... ?

I'm not sure if there is one word to describe different processes. Thus there can be radioactive decay into a different isotope (alpha or beta decay), gamma ray emission which means a change in energy state of the nucleus, nuclear fission as in U-235 in a reactor, and neutron induced change such as U-238 absorbing a neutron becoming Pu-239.