High-level radioactive waste management concerns management and disposal of highly radioactive materials created during production of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Radioactive waste contains a mixture of short-lived and long-lived nuclides, as well as non-radioactive nuclides. There wass reported some 47,000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste stored in the USA in 2002. Nuclear waste is approximately 94% Uranium, 1.3% Plutonium, 0.14% other Actinides, and 5.2% fission products.
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