What's more, the industry has so far generated nearly 300, 000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste, and counting.

更重要的是，这个工业至今已制造出将近30万公吨的高放射性核垃圾，而且数量还在继续增加。

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So far, no country has succeeded in building a permanent geological repository for high-level nuclear waste, and only Finland has secured public acceptance for a site.

迄今为止，没有一个国家，已成功建造一座可永久性处置高放核废物的地质库，而且唯有芬兰，其公众同意接受建一个这样的地质库。

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The U.S. nuclear power industry will generate roughly 70, 000 tons of high-level nuclear waste by 2015, according to Los Alamos. That includes about 550 tons of plutonium.

根据洛斯阿拉莫斯的数据，到2015年，美国核电工业将产生约7万吨高等级核废料，其中包括约550吨的钚。

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Nevada's Yucca Mountain is the "furthest along and most advanced" high-level nuclear waste repository, Cheney said.

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What if we could build a nuclear reactor that offered no possibility of a meltdown, generated its power inexpensively, created no weapons-grade by-products, and burnt up existing high-level waste as well as old nuclear weapon stockpiles?

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The Sellafield plant is the UK's largest and most hazardous nuclear site, storing enough high and intermediate level radioactive waste to fill 27 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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