Nuclear waste can also be from things such as medical imaging equipment
trucorsair on
Misleading, according to this Kentucky has no nuclear waste…..Maxey Flats, Ky is a waste repository that has been leaking for decades and had a massive remediation effort. You have to look at the TOTAL waste problem. Nuclear waste is everywhere.
Important to clarify this appears to be spent nuclear fuel, not „nuclear waste,“ which as a colloquial category should include things like transuranic waste and LLW.
New Mexico and Nevada are not empty, they have substantial waste storage, in particular WIPP in New Mexico and Area 3 and Area 5 at NNSS in Nevada.
Plane_Crab_8623 on
The map is mistaken or it is meant to mislead. In Nevada there are 360 sites of atmospheric atomic tests each one leaving radioactive material behind. Some of it has a half life of 30,000 years. You could call that nuclear waste. The intense heat from the explosions turned desert sand into radioactive glass. The government just bulldozed dirt on top of it.
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Several people have commented, but there’s also the naval nuclear waste. I think much of that was at Hanford, but not sure where that went off to. Certainly there’s still a substanial amount in Puget Sound.
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Nuclear waste can also be from things such as medical imaging equipment
Misleading, according to this Kentucky has no nuclear waste…..Maxey Flats, Ky is a waste repository that has been leaking for decades and had a massive remediation effort. You have to look at the TOTAL waste problem. Nuclear waste is everywhere.
[https://www.oah.org/process/payton-maxey-flats/](https://www.oah.org/process/payton-maxey-flats/)
Important to clarify this appears to be spent nuclear fuel, not „nuclear waste,“ which as a colloquial category should include things like transuranic waste and LLW.
New Mexico and Nevada are not empty, they have substantial waste storage, in particular WIPP in New Mexico and Area 3 and Area 5 at NNSS in Nevada.
The map is mistaken or it is meant to mislead. In Nevada there are 360 sites of atmospheric atomic tests each one leaving radioactive material behind. Some of it has a half life of 30,000 years. You could call that nuclear waste. The intense heat from the explosions turned desert sand into radioactive glass. The government just bulldozed dirt on top of it.
Several people have commented, but there’s also the naval nuclear waste. I think much of that was at Hanford, but not sure where that went off to. Certainly there’s still a substanial amount in Puget Sound.