I thought something like 30 tons per Gwatt capacity per year was the ballpark for high level waste without reprocessing? How are you arriving at a 120,000 ton estimate?
Sure there isn't a prohibitive quantity either way but regardless I think the 120k number might be off by one or two orders of magnitude even before reprocessing reduces the amount by ~95%.
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I thought something like 30 tons per Gwatt capacity per year was the ballpark for high level waste without reprocessing? How are you arriving at a 120,000 ton estimate?
Footnote has the backup. 2-3x is guesstimate, but it doesn't really matter. The answer is there's just not much waste to store
Sure there isn't a prohibitive quantity either way but regardless I think the 120k number might be off by one or two orders of magnitude even before reprocessing reduces the amount by ~95%.
you'll have to take that up with the folks from worldnuclearwastereport.org