Radioactive Waste

No, sorry by itself it does not.

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I really want to know if Arab countried really bury nuclear waste of western countries in their and

It depends.

Radioactive Waste emitting Alpha particles could be stored in drums within a secure area, since Alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of paper.

Radioactive Waste emitting Beta particles can also be stored in drums within a secure area, since Beta particles can be stopped by a sheet of tin.

Radioactive Waste particles emitting Gamma rays require many feet of dense lead in order to stop the radiation. These wastes are generally stored within secure areas underground, or remote areas away from highly populated areas.

Your skin starts to peel off and all your hair falls off. It's a real painful death. It can also cause birth defects.

The symbol for radiation is the "radiation trefoil", and you can find it by that name. I've added a link below.

Nuclear fuels plants all pose a problem because they have radioactive waste which is very poisonous to living things. Many of these plants leak into ground water, or purposely discharge into oceans or seas.

Nuclear waste itself does not directly cause mutations, but the radiation emitted from it can damage DNA in living organisms. This genetic damage can lead to mutations, which may result in cancer or other health issues over time. However, the extent of such effects depends on the level of exposure and various biological factors. Overall, while radiation can contribute to mutations, it doesn't guarantee that all organisms exposed will experience such changes.

Dispersal refers to the movement and spread of nuclear waste materials into the environment, potentially leading to contamination of air, water, and soil. Containment, on the other hand, involves strategies and structures designed to securely isolate nuclear waste from the environment to prevent its release and ensure safety. Effective containment is crucial for protecting public health and the environment, typically achieved through engineered barriers and geological repositories. Together, dispersal and containment are key concepts in managing the risks associated with nuclear waste.

It existed but was not recognized when uranium and vanadium ores first began being mined, in the tailings piles.

Before that significant amounts were created in the Oklo natural reactors about 3 billion years ago. Man had nothing to do with that.

Massive amounts of it are created naturally in supernova explosions.

What type of reaction produces the most dangerous radioactive waste?

nuclear

No, Enriched Uranium-235 is used in a nuclear reactor as the fuel in the fuel rods and boron is used in the control rods.

Yes.

A particle accelerator can be used to drive a type of sub-critical reactor called an Energy Amplifier (EA) or Accelerator Drive System. In this system, protons are accelerated to high energy and crashed into a target made of an element with a high atomic number, such as lead. As each proton collides with a lead nucleus, a cascade of neutrons is produced, and these are sent to interact with radioactive material, such as nuclear waste.

When a neutron collides with a nucleus, any of three things can happen:

1. The neutron can bounce off. This is what typically, but not always, happens with atoms that are not radioactive.

2. The neutron can cause nuclear decay.

3. The neutron can be captured, causing the atom to take on the next higher isotope number. When this happens, the atom may be rendered inert, or the half-life will be changed. When an isotopes with a long half-life is rendered into an isotope that is radioactive, it is nearly always made into an isotope with a short half-life, which decays quickly in the high neutron density.

This process produces heat, which can generate electrical power to drive the accelerator, with power to spare. In a large scale system, the accelerator should consume less than 10% of the power produced.

This process was invented by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia, while he was the director of CERN. It was tested in simulation, and the parts of the process that required physical demonstration were also successfully tested.

Though no plant of this type has yet been built, such plants are proposed for various countries all over the world. In Norway, for example, three utilities companies have expressed interest in building such a plant, and two have acquired licences. Interest in Norway is so widespread that a public opinion poll found that 80% of those asked said they wanted to see such a plant operate in Norway, to use thorium rather than nuclear waste. Norway has abundant thorium resources.

No plant of this type is publicly acknowledged to be under consideration in the United States.

All radioactive material has a characteristic half-life. This is a period during which half the matter from the original mass will have decayed into a daughter element. Either the daughter element is non-radioactive and therefore non-hazardous or it is radioactive and has its own half-life. The total radioactivity thus reduces over time and at some stage is deemed to reach a non-hazardous level.

High level nuclear waste is carefully controlled, so the idea of 'dumping' it is wrong. For one thing it would kill anyone stupid enough to try. Hopefully in various countries using nuclear power there will be final repositories built. At present in the US it is simply stored without processing on the power station sites where it is produced.

In the US the spent fuel has been stored on site in water filled ponds. Plans have been made for an underground store in Nevada but it has not been started as yet.

In the UK the spent fuel is transported to Sellafield where some has been separated to obtain plutonium, but if not processed chemically it has to be stored under water as on power station sites. So there is at present no long term storage in operation.

Uranium becomes lead

That would vary with reactor design, where the original problem occurred, operator training and response to the problem, and many other variables. An accident can vary from a tiny release of radioactive gasses that is stopped immediately, through steam ejection of a fuel rod whch impales a single worker onto the ceiling, through a massive steam explosion followed by a graphite fire (all three of these have happened), to a worst case complete core meltdown that melts down to the water table causing massive contamination of drinking water for hundreds of miles (this has not happened).

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