nuclear waste

Forty years ago nuclear technology was thought to be the solution to the world’s energy crisis. Vast amounts of energy could be produced at a relatively low cost.
Nuclear fission was going to save the world from its dwindling supply of natural resources; this was the future. Now, forty years later, nuclear power plants are being closed down and construction of new plants is virtually unheard of. How could a technology supposed to save the world, turn into one of societies greatest threats? Along with nuclear technology came an unexpectedly large and extremely under-thought of burden, nuclear or radioactive waste.
Radioactive waste is “material containing the unusable radioactive byproducts of scientific, military, and industrial applications of nuclear energy,”
(Columbia encyclopedia) and is extremely harmful to both humans and the environment. There are two types of radioactive waste low level and high level wastes. Low level waste is usually waste products fr...