Nuclear Waste: World Issue

Nuclear waste has not only been a problem in the United States, it is a problem all over the world. The waste is stored in different and similar ways than the United States does. In Sweden they have a specific way in which the waste is stored. In this table it shows the level of waste, the volume, and the radioactive content. This helps show the amount of nuclear waste they have at the plant. With this table set up they are able to know how radioactive the type of waste is and also know what kind of waste they have to work with. When low and intermediate level waste is being transferred, the people moving it are not shielded from radiation that it is transmitting. They mentioned that it still releases a form of radiation but they do not shield from it.

Table from World Nuclear Association. 

How the fuel is managed: 

The fuel is extremely hot when radioactive when used. It is stored and handled after it has cooled. the workers are shield by steel or concrete like material or a few meters of water. 

Used nuclear fuel stored underwater in
CLAB facility located in Sweden 

Low level and intermediate waste stored in Finland.

The disposal process depends on the level the waste is. Low and intermediate level are buried close to the surface since it is not that radioactive. High level are disposed underground in engineered facilities in stable ecological land. Since there are not any facilities that are built to store the high level waste there are some countries in which they are in the process of building them. There is no images or sketches showing how they would store the waste.

"Nuclear plants are built on the shores of lakes, rivers, and oceans because these bodies provide the large quantities of cooling water needed to handle the waste heat discharge."

http://www.world-nuclear.org/nuclear-basics/what-are-nuclear-wastes.aspx
This website is pro nuclear power but only facts of storage were taken,
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_technology/got-water-nuclear-power.html#.VyJ0abgrK70