Comment on ‘Poison portal’: US and UK could send nuclear waste to Australia under Aukus, inquiry told
Dippy@beehaw.org 2 months ago
It’s important to note that nuclear doesn’t have much waste. All of the United States nuclear waste could be placed on a football field and only be 10ft high
sillinesslemon@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Ft?
Dippy@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Feet. Or approximately 2 meters
anathema_device@bne.social 2 months ago
@Dippy @sillinesslemon 10ft is more like 3 metres.
A football field is 300ft x 160ft. So using your estimate, that's 480,000 cubic feet, or 13,592 cubic metres of radioactive waste