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    WHAT HAPPENS TO RADIOACTIVE WASTE?

    Sep 02, 2021 2 minutes
    WORDS ANDY EXTANCE

    How do you store waste when its dangers could outlast the human species? It’s a question we need to address after harnessing the awesome power of nuclear energy.

    Nuclear fuel is usually a radioactive-enriched uranium pellet. About three atoms in every hundred are in a form called uranium-235. A uranium pellet is a small cylinder of uranium-235 about a

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