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high-level waste

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high-level waste
n
(Engineering / General Engineering) radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated Compare intermediate-level waste, low-level waste


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Indeed, we know that for any new reactors built, interim stores at the reactor sites will have to contain the high-level waste arising from nuclear plants for up to 160 years, according to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which is responsible for managing the programme to establish the long-term management and disposal of nuclear waste.
For example, DOE has not included some actual expenditures to date or storage costs for high-level waste canisters.
They cover the composition of high-level waste solutions arising from reprocessing nuclear spent fuel, principles and examples of immobilizing non-separated or separated waste, specific matrices for immobilizing long-lived radionuclides, and glasses for immobilizing non-separated highly radioactive solutions.
 
 
 
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