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Facts about nuclear waste storage

Published: Saturday, March 8, 2008 12:07 a.m. MST
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Remaining waste storage capacity at EnergySolutions' Clive site: 150 million cubic feet
Size of Clive facility: About 1 square mile
Percentage of capacity realized: 50 percent
Amount of waste processed every year: 6 million cubic feet
Mass of 1,600 tons of waste: About 80,000 cubic feet
Amount of imported material tagged for recycling into metal shield blocks to be reused in nuclear industry: 33 percent
Number of active nuclear reactors in the U.S.: 104
Amount of waste generated by a decommissioning of one reactor: 1 million cubic feet
Rating of waste from Italy that would be disposed of in Utah: Class A


Source: EnergySolutions

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