question 18

Question 18 Not yet answered Marked out of 1.00 P Flag question Select from below the one statement that is false. An open fuel cycle refers to a fuel cycle in which nuclear fuel is used once and then disposed of. Spent nuclear fuel is millions of times more radioactive than fresh fuel. Components of spent fuel have half-lives ranging from seconds to many thousands of years. Most nuclear power stations in operation today run a closed nuclear fuel cycle in which nuclear fuel is re-processed before being re-used. High-level waste is defined as 'waste with long-lived radio-nuclides that will continue to generate significant heat