Catherine Clifford of CNBC reports on Bill Gates’ comments on nuclear waste.
- Nuclear waste is not as big of a problem as many anti-nuclear activists would have you believe.
- All of America’s nuclear waste from the last 60 years could be stored in a singular Walmart.
- Around 90% of the volume of nuclear waste generated is classified as Low Level Waste and has very small amounts of radioactivity.
- Nuclear energy is safe, clean, reliable, and crucial to meeting energy security and environmental goals.
“Currently, 19% of electricity generated in the United States comes from nuclear power plants, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That represents about half of the carbon-free electricity generation in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Energy.”
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