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Radioactive waste is a waste product containing radioactive material. It is usually the product of a nuclear process such as nuclear fission, though industries not directly connected to the nuclear power industry may also produce radioactive waste. The majority of radioactive waste is "low-level waste", meaning it has low levels of radioactivity per mass or volume.

Radioactivity diminishes over time, so in principle the waste needs to be isolated for a period of time until it longer poses a hazard. This can mean hours to years for some common medical or industrial radioactive wastes, or thousands of years for high-level wastes. The main approaches to managing radioactive waste to date have been segregation and storage for short-lived wastes, near-surface disposal for low and some intermediate level wastes, and deep and secure burial for the long-lived high-level wastes.

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Radioactive Waste Management - World Nuclear Association

• Nuclear power is the only large-scale energy-producing technology which takes full responsibility for all its wastes and fully costs this into the product.

• The amount of radioactive wastes is very small relative to wastes produced by fossil fuel electricity generation.

• Used nuclear fuel may be treated as a resource or simply as a waste.

• Safe methods for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste are technically proven; the international consensus is that this should be deep geological disposal.

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