On waste amounts...it depends on what waste you are talking about. Low level waste there is a tremendous amount of volume but it is also easily dealt with and not much of a concern. There is much less high level waste but it is still a large amount. At the Hanford site the K Basin area alone has 53 million gallons of a thick high level sludge that needs to be handled remotely (this is thanks to the US government. When they shut down the plutonium producing reactors they took the fuel and simply tossed them into K Basin and ignored them even though the K Basin was not designed for that purpose). When you add in Rocky Flats and Savannah River there is a lot of high level waste associated with those remediations.
The bright side is that newly generated waste is not big at all, especially in areas that reprocess fuels.
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