Nuclear Waste

Waste is made up of three things one the unused uranium which is most of it two the fission products which are atomic fragments call them lighter than uranium and transuranics which are heavier than uranium. Transuranics can be consumed in fast reactors that would mean their remaining waste is very short-lived compared to the traditional spent fuel that we currently have. These materials might last for a long time but they're not nearly as hazardous as some of the other materials that we're concerned about. So this in part gets into the difference of that we will use in the future so in thermal nuclear power plants we're talking about slow neutrons that basically move at the same speed as everything in the