Largest Nuclear Waste Sites

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  1. 1) Hanford Nuclear Waste Site, Washington, USA contains approx 2, 100 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel and 8 tonnes of plutonium. The site is about 1518 square kilometres.
  2. 2) Murmansk, Murmansk, Russia. Undisclosed tonnage. The port holding the former Soviet Union's aging nuclear submarines.
  3. 3) Kola Peninsula, Murmansk, Russia. Undisclosed tonnage. Highest concentration of active and derelict nuclear reactors in the world.
  4. 4) Mayak, Chelyabinsk, Russia
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