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Can you get power from the radioactive element Xenon?
xenon is usually a waste product of nuclear reactors and although has power not that much
How much waste does nuclear fusion produce?
Nuclear fusion produces very little waste compared to nuclear fission. The waste produced by nuclear fusion is mainly low-level radioactive material, which is easier to manage and has a shorter lifespan.
Does fusion create large amounts of radioactive waste?
True. If fusion can be made to work in manmade equipment, for power production, (and this is not certain), there should be much less radioactive waste than for fission reactors. The product of the fusion, helium, is harmless. The engineering details of such a plant have not been established, but the energy produced will presumably be extracted from materials surrounding the reaction chamber which absorb the neutrons produced, so these materials will become irradiated and radioactive. Whether the structure will remain for the life of the plant or perhaps neutron absorbing materials have to be replenished from time to time is unknown, but obviously there will be some radioactive waste to be dealt with.
What happens during radioactive dating?
Radioactive dating is carried out with substances which were formed at some unknown point in the past and contained a known proportion of a radioactive isotope of some element. Radioisotopes decay into other elements at a fixed and known rate. So, if you know how much of the radioactive isotope is still left in the sample, then you can work out how long it would have taken for the rest to have decayed into other elements. That gives the age of the sample.
Why should you ship radioactive waste into space?
It should not be shipped out to space. It would be too expensive. There are thousands of tons of radioactive waste being stored all over the world. It would not be good to put it in orbit, since it might return to Earth for what ever reason. To boost so much weight into escape velocities would cost billion or trillions of dollars. It is much better to develop safe ways to store the waste in ways that will keep it safe for 100s of thousands of years. The facts are simple: # Radioactive waste is a huge problem. # Accidents happen. # It is not just going to go away. # Safe storage methods must be found before unscrupulous people start dumping it into the environment to the detriment of the whole ecosystem.
How much Irish blood must you have to be in the Irish mafia?
100% Irish blood
How do you dispose of medium level nuclear waste?
The problem is two fold here. The waste from nuclear sites is plentiful only because of foolish guidelines. For example water leaving a power plant can not have as much background radiation as it does when entering in some cases. High level waste we all agree is an issue. Low level waste is not an ssue, but there is this grey area of medium level waste. The simplest method would be to put this waste into barrels and bury it in New Mexico or other solid areas. One interesting method that I was presented with by a passenger on a recent flight was this. We do not actually make radioactive material, we concentrate it. If we take three toms of dirt out of a half ounce of radioactive material, why not mix the material back into the stuff and fill the mine back up with it? No new amounts of radioactive material would be added to the area and the concentrations would be the same! How does one argue this?
How can radioactive contamination occur?
Radioactive contamination is also known as radiological contamination. It is the deposition, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces within solids, liquids, or gases. There presence is unintended or undesirable.
How much waste do the nuclear power plants in the US make each year?
Nuclear power plants in the US produce approximately 2,000-2,300 metric tons of radioactive waste each year. This waste is mainly in the form of used nuclear fuel, which is stored on-site at the plants until a long-term disposal solution is established.
Does nuclear power produce radioactive waste?
Yes. It is contained in the spent fuel rods, which when they have been used too much to be useful anymore are removed from the reactor and stored in a large pool of water to keep them cool until most of the radioactivity has decayed (the energy released in radioactive decay could heat them hot enough to melt if they were not cooled). They were then supposed to be removed from the temporary storage pool and shipped to a long term storage facility or a reprocessing plant, but the US has built neither so the spent fuel rods remain in the temporary storage pools.Also coal fired plants produce and release coal waste, which includes radioactive uranium oxides in the smoke (nuclear power plants do not release their wastes).
How much waste do you waste in the UK?
8%
What are the waste products of nuclear power?
It creates nuclear waste that can stay radioactive for thousands of years. The result is that it has to be buried in a hole at least 1 mile deep. The fission process yields neutrons, gamma rays, and radioactive elements which can also emit neutrons, alpha particles, beta rays, gamma rays, x-rays, and positrons.
