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How dangerous is nuclear waste?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Safety of Spent Nuclear Fuel

We heard from an advocate for nuclear power who told us that the commercial nuclear power industry has a quote perfect safety record when it comes to spent fuel. We've seen some very very large incidents like the myog1957 incident or a keishti incident as it's also known which is probably the third largest emission radioactive substances from the industry. Why not just store the fairly small volume of nuclear fuel at the reactors where it's produced so you don't have to transport it? You don't worry about loss and damage during transport, he says. The management of spent nuclear fuel is not an easy job to do It's technically very complex and in technical very complex things go sometimes wrong luckily enough

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