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Quantity of waste produced

At the end of 2019 in the EU,  there was:

  • around 782 000 m3 of radioactive waste (30% classed as very low-level waste, about 1% as highly active waste and the rest as low and intermediate level waste)
  • around 54 700 tonnes of heavy-metal of spent fuel in storage.

See the Inventory of radioactive waste for more details.