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Nuclear waste doesn't need to be sequestered for anything like 200,000 years. After a few hundred years it's no more radioactive than the rocks from which it c
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
Nuclear waste doesn't need to be sequestered for anything like 200,000 years.
After a few hundred years it's no more radioactive than the rocks from which it came.
You seem to have the common misconception that "long half-life" = "more radioactive", when in fact "long half-life" = "less radioactive", by definition.