Trumpy
Well 90% of the waste generated is classified as low level. Tool, clothes, paperwork, badges, and anything else that was exposed or could have been exposed to raditation. It does not matter how much exposure was actually recieved. I have had to throw tools and test equipment into low level bins for disposal 20 minutes after unpacking it from the factory wrapping just because I used it in a exposure area. The only change occurs if the item wasted recieves enough exposure to register high enough to be classified as medium or high level waste.
You do not take your personel tools into a nuke plant and work around the reactor if you want them after that job. Security/safety will consficate them for disposal.
As far as disposal of high level waste, politics and the many panic mongers that sorid politics attracts have thoughly muddied up the debate. I do not believe those jerks will ever allow a rational political answer. Returning the uranium to the earth is the only realistic answer.
And yes they do security checks on all the people who work there. Also a taking something out of the plants is not that easy unless you are authorized. Even then you get checked on.
