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The longer it’s radioactive lifespan, the less dangerous it is.

• acidburnNSA 6y ago
  Exactly! In the extreme, things like mercury have an infinite half-life and are toxic forever. Yet nuclear waste always gets the bad reputation because it becomes less dangerous with time. Odd.
  • tuatoru 6y ago
    Not odd at all. Just very, very successful propaganda. The coal industry's astroturfed anti-nuclear campaign in the 1960s and 1970s has warped thinking on this for generations.