> The total amount of radioactive waste on the earth is about the size of a swimming pool (or was that the total amount of gold? I forgot, either way in terms of quantity it's not that much)
This seems wrong in both places. There are probably enough gold rings manufactured per year to fill a swimming pool. In pictures: Fort Knox itself seems to have at least a swimming pool of gold [1] and Thailand a swimming pool of waste.[2]
In the 1930s they put about 13,000 tonnes of gold in Fort Knox. (It now has about 4,500 tonnes). Density of gold is about 20g/cm^3, or 20 tonnes per cubic metre. So Fort Knox held up to 650m^3 of gold.
A normal swimming pool is about 25m x 12.5m x 2m which is 625m^3.
> Reported volume: This is the volume actually taken up by wastes that exist at the Inventory stock date. It is the volume taken up by wastes inside the tanks, vaults, silos and drums in which they are contained.
This seems wrong in both places. There are probably enough gold rings manufactured per year to fill a swimming pool. In pictures: Fort Knox itself seems to have at least a swimming pool of gold [1] and Thailand a swimming pool of waste.[2]
[1] https://external-preview.redd.it/rgD0FO1pELgkuXZzWC2NQk0vJZU... [2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/TINT_Rad...