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Most anti-nuclear people don't appreciate that radioactivity is inversely proportional to half-life. The waste that's really dangerous isn't long-lived, and the
by quotemstr 9y ago
Most anti-nuclear people don't appreciate that radioactivity is inversely proportional to half-life. The waste that's really dangerous isn't long-lived, and the long-lived waste isn't all that dangerous.
- abstractbeliefs 9y agoThat's almost worse in this context: a place that kills within hours will be shunned quickly after being (re)discovered, after killing only a small handful of people. Somewhere that subtly poisons over twenty years could blight multiple generations with radiation related illness that a less scientifically sophisticated culture is unable to tie to the materials we hide.