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A typical light water power reactor produces somewhere between
10,000 and 50,000 cubic ft of radioactive waste per year,
mostly DAW and ion exchange media.

In terms of volume, the spent fuel is insignificant.

OTOH, the high volume waste is all short-lived isotopes that
will decay to near background levels in only a few hunder years.

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