Category Archives: Waste handling

BWRs: boiling water reactors

PWRs: pressurized water reactors

HWRs: heavy-water reactors

I think the main source of radioactive wastes comes from nuclear power stations.

Nuclear power is economically competitive and environmentally clean compared to most other forms of energy used in electricity production, so nuclear power stations gradually become a more and more important part of the national energy system in many countries.

With a result of the operation of nuclear reactors, some radioactive wastes are produced. Even though the wastes generated at nuclear power plants are rather low in activity and the radionuclides contained therein have a low radiotoxicity. However, nuclear power plants are the largest in number among all nuclear facilities and produce the greatest volume of radioactive wastes.

In my opinion, main source of radioactive waste still comes from nuclear power staions.