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What happens to nuclear waste?
Waste nuclear fuel rods are processed to extract plutonium and uranium that can be used again. Other radioactive waste may be sunk beneath water or buried deep in the ground until its radioactivity decreases.
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Nuclear reactors produce dangerous radioactive waste materials
 
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