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How to dispose of and safely store the active fission products in the spent fuel

Answer:

1) Accidents in the nuclear plants

2) Disposal of waste materials released from this power plants.

Explanation:

The use of nuclear power plant is quite efficient, but it contains radioactive elements that are highly radioactive and there occurs continuous emission of radiations that are harmful for health. There is no release of any green house gas and fossil fuels are not burnt.

The problems associated with the use of nuclear power plant are as follow-

  1. Accidents in the plants- In these nuclear power plants, operations are carried out in a very careful manner, because the use of these radioactive elements releases harmful radiations, and accidents happens unexpectedly.
  2. Disposal of waste materials- This nuclear plants releases a huge amount of waste materials that contains some amount of radioactive toxic element that are exposed to the environment causing harm to the various life forms. So it is still not solved how to handle and store this waste products.

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