Both, meeting somewhere in the middle - nuclear waste is treated way too carefully, and non-nuclear heavy metal waste is treated rather too carelessly. Either w

Both, meeting somewhere in the middle - nuclear waste is treated way too carefully, and non-nuclear heavy metal waste is treated rather too carelessly. Either way, the important point is for the level of care to be proportional to the actual danger, rather than determined entirely by whether it's called "radioactive" or not.