Radioactive waste
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Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear de
Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology (TINT) low-level radioactive waste barrels
Activity of U-233 for three fuel types. In the case of MOX, the U-233 increases for the first 650 thousand years as it is produced by the decay of Np-237 which was created in the reactor by absorption of neutrons by U-235.
Removal of very low-level waste
Spent fuel flasks are transported by railway in the United Kingdom. Each flask is constructed of 14 in (360 mm) thick solid steel and weighs in excess of 50 tonnes.
Spent nuclear fuel
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Spent nuclear fuel, occasionally called used nuclear fuel, is nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor. It is no longer useful in sustaining a nuclear reaction in an ordinary thermal
Radioactive waste
…and requires some shielding; and high-level waste (HLW), which is highly radioactive and hot due to decay heat, thus requiring cooling and shielding. Spent nuclear fuel can be processed in nuclear reprocessing plants. One third of the total amount has already been reprocessed. With nuclear reprocessing, 96% of the spent…
Spent fuel pool at a nuclear power plant
Spent nuclear fuel stored underwater and uncapped at the Hanford site in Washington, US
Spent fuel pool at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on 27 November 2013