• Question: How much nuclear waste to we produce each year?

    Asked by 374nveg48 to Sarah on 8 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sarah Hunak

      Sarah Hunak answered on 8 Nov 2016:


      You might be surprised to know that it’s actually a very small amount compared to other power plants like oil and gas. We’re also really good at recycling a lot of the nuclear waste that we produce. I can’t add photos on my reply here but I’ll put one up on my profile of how much one person’s share of high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants for a period of 20 years is. It’s pretty small!

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