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Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by hga on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @05:17AM (#11578846)
the volume of waste generated by a 1 GWe nuclear reactor (were it reprocessed and vitrified) would fill right around three cubic meters

And that waste will be no more radioactive than the ore it was mined from in about 600 years.

(Now, that's not entirely safe stuff for your children to roll around in, but it helps put the issue in perspective.)

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