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Half life is inversely proportional to radiation intensity. The big issue with fission waste products are the nucleotides radioactive enough to kill and long li
by wbl 9y ago
Half life is inversely proportional to radiation intensity. The big issue with fission waste products are the nucleotides radioactive enough to kill and long lived enough to be annoying, not the nasty ones that go away in a few decades or the almost inert ones.
- xrange 9y agoMight as well put a Wikipedia link here about the fission product isotopes and their half lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product#Radioactivity_over_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product#Radioa...