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What sort of waste is stored at ANSTO?

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What sort of waste is stored at ANSTO?

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Currently ANSTO mainly stores low level waste and a very small amount of intermediate waste. Spent fuel, which is not categorised as waste in Australia, is stored at ANSTO until it is ready for shipment overseas for permanent storage in the United States. However, some spent fuel from ANSTO’s previous reactor HIFAR, will be reprocessed in France and Scotland, and the waste following reprocessing will return to Australia as intermediate waste after 2015. However this waste along with ANSTO’s other waste will be stored in a Commonwealth waste facility in the Northern Territory once a site is selected not at ANSTO.

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