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Re:Death rates from energy production per TWh by ljf on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @12:52PM (#19911182)
You are (purposefully?) confusing spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. Many hundreds of thousands or tonnes of HLW are produced each year and also need dealing with.
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Re:Death rates from energy production per TWh by acidburnNSA on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @01:45PM (#19911807)
Long-lived high-level nuclear waste, colloquially known as nuclear waste, as in "but what do you do with the waste" IS spent nuclear fuel. There's also low-level rad waste that goes in special landfills but no one worries too much about that.

This is fission products, actinides, and uranium-238.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#High-level_w...

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