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Originally posted by bghooper1967: ↑

Nuclear fuel is very energy dense, so very little of it is required to produce immense amounts of electricity – especially when compared to other energy sources. As a result, a correspondingly small amount of waste is produced. On average, the waste from a reactor supplying a person’s electricity needs for a year would be about the size of a brick. Only 5 grams of this is high-level waste – about the same weight as a sheet of paper.
The generation of electricity from a typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear power station, which would supply the needs of more than a million people, produces only three cubic metres of vitrified high-level waste per year, if the used fuel is recycled. In comparison, a 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power station produces approximately 300,000 tonnes of ash and more than 6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, every year.

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The US generates 2,000 metric tonnes each year of spent fuel.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel

The US has 94 nuclear reactors.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=207&t=21

That's 21.3 metric tonnes of spenf fuel each year per reactor.
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