Innovations

July 1999

The Swedish Program for Long Term Isolation of High Level Nuclear Waste in Copper Canisters

Copper Applications in Health & Environment

By Lars O. Werme
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB)

References:

1. A hazard index of 1.0 represents the toxicity of eight metric tons of natural uranium (including its radioactive "daughter" elements). That is the quantity needed to produce one metric ton of fuel for a reactor that operates on enriched uranium. Eight metric tons of natural uranium may represent as much as several thousand tons of uranium ore.

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