Multiple Choice
Currently,spent fuel rods used to power nuclear reactors are
A) stored on site outside of the reactor in steel-lined casks or water-filled pools.
B) sent to a national repository.
C) placed in metal drums and dumped deep in the ocean.
D) loaded into rockets and shot into space.
E) treated chemically to speed up the progression of half lives.
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