For How Many Years Should It Be Possible to Store

question 35

Multiple Choice

For how many years should it be possible to store radioactive waste if the fuel pellets in spent fuel rods are processed to remove the plutonium and the other very long-lived radioactive isotopes? 

• A) about 100 years 
• B) about 1 000 years 
• C) about 10 000 years 
• D) about 100 000 years

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