Description: This graphic represents the cumulative global radioactive waste inventory as compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency up to the year 2000. Different types of activities generate variable amounts of nuclear waste with respective activity. Spent fuel represents the smallest amount of waste generated in total, but holds the highest activity. The largest amounts of wastes are generated by mining and milling, but contain an activity only a millionth of that in spent fuel.
Published in: "Nuclear Waste: Is Everything Under Control?", Environment Alert Bulletins, Nov. 2007
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