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On 07/12/2015 08:01, harry wrote:
On Sunday, 6 December 2015 14:38:51 UTC, dennis@home wrote:
On 06/12/2015 10:15, Brian Gaff wrote:
Its like Nuclear power and what to do with the dangerous waste. Even though
its small in comparison to the other ways to generate power, it seems that
keeping it and the living world apart for millennia is something nobody has
thought much about even today.


Why would you want to keep it apart for millennia?
If its highly radioactive it decays away quickly.
If it doesn't decay away quickly its not very radioactive.

Its simple physics.


No it's not.
Some materials remain dangerous after 100,000 years.


So which ones are highly radioactive after 100,000 years then?