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And what they also don't appreciate is that nuclear material with a 20,000 year half-life has, by definition, very very low radioactivity. It's like any other
by sjwright 11y ago
And what they also don't appreciate is that nuclear material with a 20,000 year half-life has, by definition, very very low radioactivity.
It's like any other fuel -- the faster it burns, the shorter it lives. And vice versa.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoYes, very much this. "Long half-life" = "not very radioactive" by definition. "Half-life of infinity" must sound really scary to these people, but that's the same as saying that it's not radiactive at all.