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Nuclear waste is the radioactive and toxic
by-products of the nuclear-energy and
nuclear-weapons industries. Nuclear waste may
have an active life of several thousand
years. Reactor waste is of three types:
high-level spent fuel, or the residue when
nuclear fuel has been removed from a reactor
and reprocessed. Intermediate, which may be
long-or short-lived, and low-level, but
bulky, waste from reactors, which has only
short-lived radioactivity.
Subject by: Shaun Jay