1. How much nuclear waste is created in a year? how much would we have to store? 2. How is it transported?

Long Woltjer: This is a section on Alternative Fuel vehicles. Your question may get a better answer in another section. There are civilian and military uses to nuclear fuel. While the civilian use may give us numbers about waste these may not be complete and military numbers will be much harder to find. There is also the question of what do you consider waste. Spent nuclear fuel will certainly be considered, except that the "waste" you get from a breeder reactor may simply be a component of a bomb. Also depleted Uranium is now being used in munitions: http://cseserv.engr.scu.edu/StudentWebPages/IPesic... Is it still a waste product or a valuable resource? It depends upon your perspective. Are you also considering the tailings, the left over and slightly radioactive rock after useful uranium is removed. This will substantially increase the volume of what you are considering waste. The US government has taken the responsibility to dispose of not only the US waste! some of the world wide waste.1 There is a nuclear waste fund but this still amounts to a subsidy to the nuclear industry: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/nucleare... "Disposal" means storage for all but breeder reactors which produce bomb making materials and high level nuclear waste. There are around 436 nuclear power reactors in the world: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf01.htm From this site: http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/nuclear_stati... The typical reactor will generate 20 metric tons of waste in a year. This amounts to a total of around 2000 (2) metric tons a year or a total of about 60,000 metric tons in the last 4 decades. The material with the highest level of radioactive waste is spent fuel rods. These are currently stored in pools on reactor sites. A nuclear reactor near NYC has had its storage pool leaking for many years with no practical way to fix it as it was built before double walls were standard. There are special Casts t! hat have been developed for the transportation of spent fuel r! ods: http://kanat.jsc.vsc.edu/student/grykien/mainpage.... Yucca Mountain, above numerous objections, has long been proposed, and was once due to open for receiving waste in 2010, but now appears to have been de-funded: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0201/Nuclear-was......Show more

Raymundo Kyser: if we switched to all nuclear power, every person would have be buried with less than an ounce of high level radiation waste. presently, waste is stored on site. The average nuclear plant makes enough waste to fill a swimming pool in 40 years.The problem is low level waste. this includes things like tools used to repair, outer clothing and waste s from maintenance. there are high volumes that can be transported by truck in common steel drums....Show more