Nuclear Power, Its Waste In The World And In Turkey

Nuclear power plants were born in 1950s. Taking only 30 grams of used fuel annually for a person’s energy consumption many countries built their own nuclear power plants. In this story, there is the fuel on one hand and the waste on the other. In general sense, used up fuel rods from nuclear reactors and the waste from reprocessing plants are referred to as nuclear waste. These wastes can be stored for decades in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors ( world-nuclear.org ). Nuclear power plants are only one source of nuclear wastes, the others are medicine, research facilities, oil and gas extraction, mining, etc. Not all of this waste is produced inside reactors, but they come from concentrated natural structures. This waste is divided into three categories, yet, the boundaries between the categories differ from country to country.