While the C.D.C. would not discuss exactly what the packages contain, each 50-ton set is stored in an undisclosed location around the country and is available to be shipped anywhere in the country within 12 hours.
About 10 tons of mustard is stored in a half-dozen or so large canisters there, amounting to roughly half of the arsenal that Gaddafi declared.
About 217,000 tons of radioactive water is stored onsite and another 350 tons of groundwater flows through the facility every day, mostly through the damaged reactor buildings.
At the Vermont Yankee plant, a reactor in southern Vermont that is nearly identical to the crippled ones in Japan, close to 700 metric tons of spent fuel is stored.
On Friday, Tepco presented an even starker view of the situation, acknowledging that as much as 220,000 tons of that water is stored in makeshift steel tanks similar to the one that is leaking.
Today, around 100 cubic meters of groundwater become contaminated at Fukushima every day, and 1 million tons of radioactive water is stored in 994 huge tanks around the site.
Today, approximately 74,000 tons of spent fuel is stored in 77 locations in 35 states.
For every ton of cement produced, says Constantz, two-fifths of a ton of carbon dioxide is stored.
Surabaya produces 1,300 tons of waste daily, which is stored in final-disposal sites or landfills throughout the city.
