In a wide-ranging interview with Handelsblatt, Bill Gates said that the existence of nuclear waste should not be a reason to avoid nuclear power.
, the construction of new nuclear power generation came to a virtual standstill.
"The best hope for nuclear is if we could get a completely new generation — and I'm biased, because I'm involved in that — where the countries that are committed to nuclear prove it out and show that the economic safety, waste management is handled," Gates said. "And then the other countries who are less engaged can look at that and see what they think, give it a fresh evaluation. And you know, that data on that won't be in for almost another eight years or so," Gates said.After decades of nuclear power generation, there is still no permanent repository for nuclear waste in the US.
"The vast majority of the volume of nuclear waste there is is Low Level Waste," Jonathan Cobb, spokesperson for the, told CNBC. "Around 90 percent of the volume of nuclear waste produced is LLW, but it contains only 1 percent of the radioactivity. This can include things like protective clothing, mops, filters, equipment and tools that have become contaminated with radioactive material at a low level.
Meanwhile the high level nuclear waste, which includes like used nuclear fuel, or higher activity wastes from reprocessing, is "about 3 percent of the volume of radioactive wastes produced, but contains 95 percent of the radioactivity," Cobb told CNBC.
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