Background briefer on nuclear waste in Canada

April 2023

by Ole Hendrickson, Ph.D.

A key takeaway from this briefer is that because they use unenriched uranium as fuel, Canadian nuclear reactors produce roughly ten times more radioactive waste per unit electricity generated, than US nuclear reactors.

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