What happens to waste of a nuclear plant system? How waste produced in nuclear power plants are different from those produced in thermal power plants?
The waste obtained from nuclear power plants is highly radioactive in nature which emits harmful radiations, Where as waste produced in a thermal power plant is non- radioactive. Management of nuclear waste is given as follows: • Some products of nuclear waste are buried in sealed steel lead containers for a long term storage, buried under the ground or dumped in vocated coal mines. • Other waste products transfer into less harmful products transform into less harmful products or to production with a shorter half life.
