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mikeash on Oct 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: First New U.S. Nuclear Reactor in Two Decades to B...

There's plenty of other waste that's more dangerous and produced in far greater quantities that people mostly don't care about. Why all the attention on nuclear waste specifically?

wahsd on Oct 26, 2015 [–]

Waste with a half-life of 500,000 years?

mikeash on Oct 26, 2015 | | [–]

There's a lot of industrial waste out there where the half life is more like 10^32 years (if protons actually do decay).

tsotha on Oct 27, 2015 | | [–]

Anything that has a half-life of 500,000 years isn't very radioactive at all. The half life is directly related to the amount of harmful stuff it puts out.

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