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Assume the average home requires an electrical power of 1kW, an average life expectancy of 75 years, and only power from nuclear energy. For such a homeowner, what would be the lifetime generation of vitrified high level waste (HLW) in kg and liters. ( assuming reprocessing and recycling of U and Pu). Recalling that the vitrified waste containers in France hold the HLW equivalent of 1.5 recycled fuel assemblies with an energy production of 1 TWh (1E + 12 Wh).