Question

Moderate liquid nuclear wastes are disposed into ___________

(a) Deep pits

(b) Buried underground

(c) Left into rivers

(d) Left into deep oceans

This question was posed to me in a job interview.

Question is taken from Disposal of Nuclear Waste in chapter Nuclear Power Plant of Energy Engineering

Answer 1

Correct choice is (a) Deep pits

To explain: Moderate liquid wastes after preliminary treatments are discharged in deep pits or day well from which they sweep out into the surrounding. Certainly liquid wastes are mixed with some kind of other chemical in order to lower their radioactivity.