"The present assumption is that radioactive material not below the clearance level after 100 years is "waste", requiring disposal in a long-term repository. Estimates of ITER material masses show that about 30,000 t of material will be radioactive at shutdown, and that 80% of that can be cleared within 100 years."
"For ITER, after 100 years, although the tonnage of waste is more than for fission, its vastly lower specific dose potential allows it to be packaged in a similar volume, in both cases with the extent of waste compaction being set by the ability to cool it during its remaining decay without human or machine involvement."
Wish they'd build it already. It will probably turn out like alot of other giant science projects, passes the technical feasibility test, but fails the economic feasibility test.
Space/Science » in reply to re: 30 million tonnes of radioactive waste
Here is an interesting graphic from the ITER website
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