Nuclear Waste Storage and Climate Change: What should we expect?

... the scale of climate change by replacing carbon intensive coal and gas-fired power stations. However, with the production of nuclear energy comes the production of nuclear waste. The waste is produced by a wide variety of processes and can be stored in many different sites around the world.... ... spent nuclear fuel is stored on-site in the reactor storage pools and in storage pools of two companies of the state corporation Rosatom (ФГУП «ГХК» и ФГУП «ПО «Маяк»), on ships servicing the nuclear ice breakers,...