Question

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?

Answer 1

Waste produced in nuclear plants is known as bio hazardous waste .

And thermal power plants generate waste as degradable used coal

Answer 2

Answer:

The waste obtained from nuclear power plants is highly radioactive in nature which emits harmful radiations, whereas 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 vacated coal mines.

Other waste products transforms into less harmful products or to products with a shorter half life.

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