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    How radioactive is nuclear reactor waste?

    That estimate is not too far off the graph I found. At 10 years, the graph shows 10 Terabecquerels per kg.
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    How radioactive is nuclear reactor waste?

    In http://jol.liljenzin.se/KAPITEL/CONTENT.HTM" [Broken] I found the following graph: http://i.imgur.com/mN9ri.png It shows the radioactivity of fission products per kg of initially present heavy metal (IHM) in spent PWR fuel at 33 MWd/kg burnup. It seems that after roughly a day we have...
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    How radioactive is nuclear reactor waste?

    I want to know how much radioactivity in Becquerels is produced by a typical light water reactor in one year of operation. I don't know how one would go about estimating this number. I found one reference that said 27 tons of spent fuel are generated by a typical reactor per year. But I...
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