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thecrumb ◴[] No.41840964[source]
I love the 'ideally' in the dry cask storage article...

"Ideally, the steel cylinder provides leak-tight containment of the spent fuel."

Also guessing that article is woefully out of date since it mentions:

"The NRC estimated that many of the nuclear power plants in the United States will be out of room in their spent fuel pools by 2015, most likely requiring the use of temporary storage of some kind"

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1. DrBazza ◴[] No.41846681[source]
The volume of nuclear waste is completely overestimated by the man-on-the-street.

https://ukinventory.nda.gov.uk/the-2022-inventory/2022-uk-da...

A bit like all the world's gold would actually comfortably fit into an olympic sized swimming pool.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21969100

Nuclear waste is a bit larger because it's not pure radioactive elements, but it is still a tiny volume.