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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Another big misunderstanding about radiation is that if something is "highly radioactive" then it necessarily has a short half-life. But something being radioactive for "X million years" means that as far as radioactive contamination actually goes, it's not much of a hazard. So there is no need to bury nuclear waste for 10million years as most nuclear waste is basically inert after <100yrs. The goldilocks zone of -radioactive enough to be a problem but not so radioactive that it quickly decays away- is a bit wider than that, unfortunately. Even on the low end you still need a few thousand years. The main problem is that if someone ingests the material itself (via water contamination or something) you don't need a very high activity level to cause a problem.
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