[runeks]

> Talking about “thousands of tonnes” of nuclear waste is comically misleading when you realise how tiny the volume is.

What is the actual volume?

[Loic]

Long life, high activity nuclear waste represents less than 3500m3 (one Olympic swimming pool), and this, since the start of civil nuclear electrical production in the 50's. World wide.

[keepamovin]

Global waste is 400,000+ tons (https://www.stimson.org/2020/spent-nuclear-fuel-storage-and-...). Even 1 pool full is ~28,000 tons (UO2 package 8tons/m3). Urainium is dense.

[nandomrumber]

Many magnitudes of order less than any of: all the steel, glass, aluminium, wood, or plastic, ever produced, and we aren’t yet drowning in cubic miles of any of those.

[aitchnyu]

But a disposed sachet from Australia isnt going to enter my cranium here in India... oh wait