{"id":66595,"date":"2024-01-26T07:32:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66595"},"modified":"2024-01-26T07:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:32:16","slug":"visualizing-all-the-nuclear-waste-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66595","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing All The Nuclear Waste In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/energy\/visualizing-all-nuclear-waste-world\">Visualizing All The Nuclear Waste In The World<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv\">\n<p><strong>Nuclear power is among the safest and cleanest sources<\/strong>\u00a0of electricity, making it a critical part of the clean energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0<strong>nuclear waste, an inevitable byproduct, is often misunderstood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motive-power.com\/national-public-utilities-council\/?utm_source=decarb-channel&amp;utm_medium=sponsored-content&amp;utm_campaign=Decarbonization\">National Public Utilities Council<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/visualizing-all-the-nuclear-waste-in-the-world\/\">Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Bruno Venditti created the following graphic<\/a>\u00a0to show<strong>\u00a0the volume of all existing nuclear waste, categorized by its level of hazardousness and disposal requirements,<\/strong>\u00a0based on data from the\u00a0International Atomic Energy Agency\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/sris.iaea.org\/region-overview\/radioactive-waste-summary\">IAEA<\/a>)..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Visualizing-All-the-Nuclear-Wast.jpg?itok=RXFWra24\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Visualizing-All-the-Nuclear-Wast.jpg?itok=RXFWra24\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Visualizing-All-the-Nuclear-Wast.jpg?itok=RXFWra24\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"68cc5326-4a51-4f70-9b04-835b8c82f480\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Storage and Disposal<\/h2>\n<p>Nuclear provides about 10% of global\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com\/mapped-nuclear-reactors-in-the-u-s\/\">electricity generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear waste, produced as a result of this, can be divided into four different types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Very low-level waste:<\/strong>\u00a0Waste suitable for near-surface landfills, requiring lower containment and isolation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Low-level waste:<\/strong>\u00a0Waste needing robust containment for up to a few hundred years, suitable for disposal in engineered near-surface facilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intermediate-level waste:<\/strong>\u00a0Waste that requires a greater degree of containment and isolation than that provided by near-surface disposal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High-level waste:<\/strong>\u00a0Waste is disposed of in deep, stable geological formations, typically several hundred meters below the surface.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite safety concerns, high-level radioactive waste constitutes less than 0.25% of total radioactive waste reported to the IAEA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-01-25_16-06-23.jpg?itok=WHjLkWEs\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-01-25_16-06-23.jpg?itok=WHjLkWEs\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2024-01-25_16-06-23.jpg?itok=WHjLkWEs\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"110\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"8e3ca25a-82d3-4868-82c1-cfb572f3696b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Stored and disposed radioactive waste reported to the IAEA under the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. Data is from the last reporting year which\u00a0varies by reporting country, 2019-2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The amount of waste produced by the nuclear power industry is small compared to other industrial activities.<\/p>\n<p>While flammable liquids comprise 82% of the hazardous materials shipped annually in the U.S., radioactive waste accounts for only 0.01%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visualizing All The Nuclear Waste In The World Nuclear power is among the safest and cleanest sources\u00a0of electricity, making it a critical part of the clean energy transition. However,\u00a0nuclear waste, an inevitable byproduct, is often misunderstood. In collaboration with the\u00a0National Public Utilities Council,\u00a0Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Bruno Venditti created the following graphic\u00a0to show\u00a0the volume of all existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[579,9429,4318],"class_list":["post-66595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-nuclear-power","tag-nuclear-waste","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66596,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66595\/revisions\/66596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}