Oh for the love of god ... stored nuclear waste, in its entirety, will NOT produce enough heat to change the earth's climate, and only somebody making **** up would claim otherwise. If you put together all nuclear waste on the planet into a giant pile in one area, and exposed it to the air, the pile of waste material would not "heat up" the atmosphere enough to change climate.
What do you think releases more heat into the environment, radioactive waste - which is shielded from the environment due to its radioactivity - or a forest fire raging over 1,000 acres? Do you think forest fires "change the climate"??
Further, nuclear waste products that are buried remain radioactive for various amounts of time, depending on the material that is radioactive, and produce heat, but those waste materials are processed, shielded and cooled so that the heat has no appreciable effect on the immediate surroundings, let alone the climate. "A typical reactor generates about 27 tonnes of used fuel
which may be reduced to 3 m[SUP]3[/SUP] per year of vitrified waste. ... Either way,
after 40-50 years the heat and radioactivity have fallen to one thousandth of the level at removal. ... After storage for about 40 years the used fuel assemblies are ready for encapsulation or loading into casks ready for indefinite storage or permanent disposal underground."
http://www.world-nuclear.org/inform...lear-wastes/radioactive-waste-management.aspx
"Global warming is mostly due to heat production by human industry since the 1800s, from nuclear power and fossil fuels, better termed hydrocarbons, – coal, oil, natural gas. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2 play a minor role even though they are widely claimed the cause. ... Waste heat [from
ALL sources, most notably fossil fuels, and not just nuclear waste]
is about 1% of greenhouse warming."
Your information is just plain wrong. Nuclear waste does not generate remotely enough ambient heat to change the climate.