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Nuclear Waste
By: Anna Gura
“… it would be morally wrong to commit future generations to the consequences of fission power on a massive scale unless it has been
demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that at least one method exists for the safe isolation of these wastes for the indefinite future.”
-Flowers Report
Here’s how it works…
World Electricity Source, 2005
Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Fusion
Binding Energy per Nucleon Curve
ITER
Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear Power Plant
Conventional Power Plant
Radioactive Waste
Radiation Exposure
Prop:Unit:
t½Ma
Yield%
Q KeV
99Tc 0.211 6.1385 294126Sn 0.230 0.1084 405079Se 0.327 0.0447 15193Zr 1.53 5.4575 91135Cs 2.3 6.9110 269107Pd 6.5 1.2499 33129I 15.7 0.8410 194
Long Lived Fission Products
Prop:Unit:
t½
aYield
%Q *KeV
155Eu 4.76 .0803 252
85Kr 10.76 .2180 687
113mCd 14.1 .0008 31690Sr 28.9 4.505 2826
137Cs 30.23 6.337 1176
121mSn 43.9 .00005 390151Sm 90 .5314 77
Medium Lived Fission Products
Problem!!!!!
High Level
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Intermediate Level
Low Level Waste
“Today we stock containers of waste because currently scientists don't know how to reduce or eliminate the toxicity, but maybe in 100 years perhaps scientists will... Nuclear waste is an enormously difficult political problem which to date no country has solved. If France is unable to solve this issue, then I do not see how we can continue our nuclear program.”
• --- Claude Mandil